BIEDS or EGYPT. 133 



white ; eyebrow buff, uiiderparts creamy white, strongly 

 sliaded on the throat, crop, and flanks with pinkish brown, 

 and with a few longitudinal brown spots on the flanks ; beak, 

 legs, and ii'ides brown, the former shading into pale brownish 

 yellow towards the base of the lower mandible. 



Entire length 6'3 inches; cnlmen 0"5 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3'5 ; tarsus 09. 



The description is taken from a specimen shot in the 

 Fayoom on the 4th of March. 



Fig. Bree, B. of Eur. ii. p. 164. 



97. Anthus Raalteni, Temm. African Tawny Pipit. 



I shot a Pipit in the Fayoom on the 3d of March, 1871, 

 which I refer with some hesitation to this species, inasmuch 

 as the bird was moulting at the time I procured it, and looks 

 very ragged. It is, however, undoubtedly a new bird to 

 Egypt. I met with a pair on a broad sandy ridge close to 

 the great lake of Birket el Korn, and observed them in tlie 

 same spot on several occasions. They frequented the desert 

 sand, over which they ran swiftly, and never left it for the 

 cultivated fields, which were close by ; and in habits they ap- 

 peared very similar to A. campestris, for which I at first 

 mistook them. The following description is taken from my 

 Egyptian specimen. 



Upper plumage rather pale ashy brown, faintly tinted with 

 rufous on the crown of the head ; feathers on the top of the 

 head and upper part of the back with darker brown centres ; 

 wings brown, the coverts shaded with chestnut, very strongly 

 on the shoulders ; the inner feathers of the median and 



