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to the margins of the end third of these feathers, outer two pairs entirely 

 uniform yellow ; sides of head and the under parts uniform bright yellow 

 with a broad black crop-band and broad black ends to the primaries. Bill 

 dark brown with the end half of the lower mandible pale, iris dark brown. 

 Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-25, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-05. Lamu 

 (Kirk). 



Immature. Upper parts brown with broad brownish buff edges to 

 the feathers shading into yellow on the outer wing-coverts and most of the 

 quills and tail-feathers ; under surface of the wing with the coverts and 

 broad inner margins to the quills bright golden yellow ; pale pattern of the 

 tail yellow and confined to the two outer pairs of feathers ; sides of head, 

 throat, breast and under tail-coverts pale rufous shaded buff, inclining to 

 rufous brown on the crop and partially mottled with yellow on the centre 

 of the breast and the under tail-coverts. Hind toe 045 inch, hind claw 0"55. 

 The pattern of the tail in young birds is yellow, but otherwise is similar to 

 that of A. campestris, which is probably its nearest ally, and the partially 

 bare tarsus appears to me to be hardly of generic value. 



The Golden Pipit inhabits eastern Africa between 5° S. lat. 

 and 5° N. lat. 



The most southern and western range known to me for 

 this species is the Pangani river, near the Pare mountains ; here 

 Fischer collected specimens in August. He also records the 

 species from Lamu and Barawa, on the coast, and inland from 

 Wapokomoland, Galaland. At Kiparadga, on the Tana river, 

 he met with them in small flocks of four to ten individuals in 

 October, and likens them in habits and voice to Anthus mfulus. 

 Sir John Kirk collected three specimens for me at Lamu 

 which are now in the British Museum along with one of Mr. 

 H. C. V. Hunter's from Kilimanjaro. Mr. Jackson procured 

 an immature bird at Witu in June, and Mr. Ansorge has met 

 with the species at Taru. The type was obtained in the Teita 

 country by Hildebrandt, who found these Pipits in small 

 flocks amongst the scattered acacia bushes. A good figure of 

 the adult (J. f. 0. 1875, pi. 2, fig. 3) shows the bare basal half 

 of the thighs which characterises the sub-genus Tmetothijlacus, 

 and the remarkable amount of bright yellow on the wings and 

 tail. 



