326 ANTHUS TENELLUS. 



abundant at Nandi in April just before its migrating north- 

 ward. Dr. Hinde obtained a specimen at Machako's in 

 March, and Mr. Lort Phillips one at Sogsoda, February 6, in 

 Somaliland. 



Count Salvadori records from Shoa an adult in full 

 plumage procured by Dr. Traversi at Cialalaka in December, 

 and Lord Lovat collected four specimens during his expedition 

 from Berbera to the Blue Nile, at Lake Harrar Meyer, 

 Baroma, Balti, and Damai Damash, in January and February. 

 According to von Heuglin the Red-throated Pipit is abundant 

 throughout Abyssinia and Nubia, in pairs or small flocks, mostly 

 frequenting the cultivated fields and pasture land, and more 

 rarely to be met with along the edges of the deserts and the 

 sandy dunes by the sea shore, and breeds in May as far south 

 as Egypt. 



Anthus tenellus. 



Anthus tenellus, Sbarpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 618 (1885) Lamu. 



Tmetothylacus tenellus (Cab.), Cab. J. f. 0. 1897, p. 438 ; Salvad. Mem. 

 E. Acad. Sc. Torino (2) xliv. p. 557 (1894) Somali; Sbarpe, P. Z. S. 

 1895, p. 474 Somali; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 169 (1896); Elliot, 

 Field Columb. Mus. i. No. 2, p. 40 (1897) Somali; Jackson, Ibis, 

 1898, p. 136 Witu. 



Macronyx tenellus, Fiscb. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 308; id. J. f. 0. 1885, 

 p. 137 Pare, Lamu, Barawa, WapoJcomo, Gala ; Oust. Bibl. Ecole 

 Hautes Etudes, xxxi. art. 10, p. 8 (1886) ; Eeichen. Vog. Deutsch 

 0. Afr. p. 200 (1894); Hartert in Ansorge's "Under Afr. Sun," 

 p. 348 (1899J Taru. 



Adxdt. Crown, back and sides of neck, upper back and upper tail- 

 coverts dark brown with yellow edges to the feathers ; lower back more 

 uniform yellowish ash ; wings bright golden yellow, the primaries and outer 

 secondaries with black shafts and ends, the latter increasing in size towards 

 the outer primary, wing-coverts mottled with brownish black, inner feathers 

 of the wing brown ; tail bright yellow with the centre pair of feathers dark 

 brown, the next three pairs with brownish black patterns confined mostly 



