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from Bogosland, and is absent in all I have examined from 

 the countries "west and south. 



2. An angular pale tip to the penultimate feather. This 

 is always present in A. sordidus, generally so in A. nicholsoni, 

 very rarely present in A. vaalensis, and never to be met with 

 in any of the other species. 



3. The mottled plumage of the crown and back is most 

 strongly marked in A. sordidus and A. nicholsoni, and is 

 present in the young of all the other species, but disappears 

 in them, or becomes obsolete, after the first moult. 



4. Hind claw more curved and also shorter than the hind 

 toe. This character is present in A. sordidus, A. nicholsoni, 

 A. melindse and A. vaalensis. In the others the hind claw is 

 less curved, and is longer than the hind toe in adult birds of 

 A. pyrrhonotus from South Africa and in what I believe to 

 be the adult of A. latistriatus. 



Anthus campestris. 



Anthus campestris (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 569 (1885) Abyssinia ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 164 (1896) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 401 



Somali ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 66 Somali. 

 Agrodroma campestris, Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c, p. 16 (1875) 



Bathurst. 



Adult. Upper parts saudy buff and nearly uniform, owing to the broad 

 pale edges of the feathers almost hiding their dark centres ; wings dark 

 brown, with the outer edges of the feathers sandy buff inclining to white 

 on the first primary; axillaries and under wing-coverts buff; tail blackish 

 brown, the centre pair of feathers with broad pale edges, and a strongly 

 marked white pattern extending over the outer feather generally with the 

 exception of a dusky wedge-shaped patch on the basal two-thirds of the 

 inner web ; penultimate feather also mostly white, but with the shaft and 

 a large wedge-shaped patch black ; eyebrow and sides of head buff with a 

 black mustachial band down each side of the throat ; under parts buff, slightly 

 paler towards the chin and centre of the breast ; crop uniform buff, or 

 with a few rather indistinct dark shaft-stripes. Bill blackish brown fading 



