Ordei- I. PASSERIFORMES. 



Suborder II. OSCINES. 



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Section II. ALAUD^. 

 Family VII. MOTACILLID.^. 



Genus III. MACRONYX. 



The Long-clawR, as Dr. Bovvdler Sharpe calls them, in the " Birds of South 

 Africa," may be described as heavily-built Pipits. Their feet are extremely 

 large, the hind claw long, and also the tarsus, so that the outstretched feet 

 extend well beyond the end of the tail, although the tail is not abnormally 

 short. This character, together with the bright colouring of the throat, and 

 often of the breast, render the species of this genus easily recognisable. 

 Anatomically they are Pipits. 



Type. 



iMacronyx, Swains. Zool. .Journ, iii. p. .344 (1817) .... M. capensis. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



n. Five outer pairs of tail-feathers with white 

 ends ; throat and centre of breast reddish 



orange capensis. 2. 



h. Four outer pairs of tail-feathers with white 



ends ; no shade of red on the throat or 



breast. 



«^. Throat and some of the breast bright 



lemon yellow. 



«2. Smaller ; wing less than 4 inches ; upper 



parts paler ; less brown on the breast croceus. V 

 b^. Larger; wing 4-2 to 4-4; upper parts 



darker ; more brown on the breast . . fuellehorni. "^ 



[Jan\iary, 1902. 



