

320 ANTHUS RUFULUS. 



buff eyebrow ; a black mustachial band down each side of the throat ; under 

 parts buff, slightly paler towards the chin and centre of the breast and 

 strongly mottled with black shaft-stripes on the crop. " Bill brown with 

 the basal portion of the lower mandible flesh-colour ; iris brown ; legs 

 yellowish clay-colour" (Eeid). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 35, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 1-1, hind toe 045, hind claw 0-5. Pinetown, $ , 19. 7. 72 

 (T. L. Ayres). 



Adult Female. Exactly like the male. Total length 6-3, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 34, tail 2-6, tarsus 1-05, hind toe 0-4, hind claw 0-5. Shoa, ? , 7. 12. 85 

 (Antinori). 



Var. a (A. bocagii ?). Similar to the above but paler and more ashy 

 both on the upper and under parts, and differs also in the colouring of the 

 penultimate feathers, which are not alike ; the one on the left side is dusky 

 brown with a wedge of white from the tip, while the one on the right side 

 is white with a broad wedge of black rising from the base of the inner web, 

 and on the outer web a black band separated from the black shaft reaches 

 nearly to the tip of the feather. Kinsembo, $ (Watkins). This specimen 

 is extremely nearly matched by one in the British Museum labelled 

 " Assensole, <?, 8. 1. 73 (W. Davison)." 



Var. b. Similar to the adult, here first described, but with the upper 

 parts very much blacker and with the lower back mottled with dark centres 

 to the feathers to about the same extent as the mantle and the pale edges 

 of the wing-feathers are narrower. No streaks on the flanks. Total length 

 6-5, culmen 055, wing 3-45, tail 2-6, tarsus 1-1. Camaroons Mt. 10,000 ft., 

 $, 8. 10. 86 (H. H. Johnston). As this is, I believe, the only specimen 

 known from Camaroons it may very possibly be a distinct form for which I 

 here propose the name of A. rufulus camarooncnsis. 



Var. c. Similar to the last but slightly less black, with the dark mottling 

 on the lower back ; the pale edges of the feathers much narrower and more 

 sharply defined. Flanks slightly streaked. Total length 6-5, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 33, tail 26, tarsus 1, hind toe 0-45, hind claw 0-45. Immature, 

 E. Timor (Wallace). 



Var. d. Very like var. c. Total length 5-5, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, 

 tail 2-5, tarsus 1-05, hind toe 0-45, hind claw 04. Immature, Pangani B. 

 (Kirk). 



The Rufous Pipit ranges over Africa to as far north as 

 Camaroons on the West Coast and the Mediterranean on the 

 east side, and extends through southern Asia to the Philip- 

 pines and Timor. 



The species, as I understand it, inhabits Camaroons, where 

 its occurrence is known only by a very strangely marked 



