AVES MOTACILLID^. 827 



an obscure brownish line behind the eye ; wings and tail dull brown ; 

 below ochraceous tawny, darkest on the breast and under tail coverts ; 

 throat white tinged with buff, streaked with blackish ; bill dark above, 

 horn color below, feet horn color. 



Geographical Range. — Falkland Islands. 



Family Motacillid^. 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x. p. 456 (1885) : Hand List of Birds, v. p. 



137 (1909)- 



Genus ANTHUS Bechstein. 



Anthns Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl., Ill, p. 704 (1807). Type 

 Anthus aqiiaticits Bechstein = Alauda spinoletta Linnaeus. 



Anthus correndera correndera Vieillot. 



Anthus correndera W€\\\q>\., Nov. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 491 (1818), 

 based on '' Alondra correndera' of Azara (Paraguay). 



Description. — Adult male, P. U. O. C. 7633, near Rio Coy, Patagonia, 

 October i, 1896. Total length, 6.00 inches; wing, 3.12; culmen, .48; 

 tail, 2.40; tarsus, .90. Above, broadly streaked with sandy buff (shaded 

 with olive on the wings) and black, edges of the interscapulars much 

 lighter, forming two light longitudinal bands, and edges of the tertials 

 similar ; wings and tail dull brown with narrow, paler edgings to the feathers^ 

 tail with outer pair of feathers largely white, next pair with a white line 

 next the shaft on the inside ; below, white with a buff wash across the 

 breast and with heavy black triangular spots on breast and sides. Claw 

 on hind toe long and nearly straight, about equal to the toe, or longer. 

 Worn specimens become paler and grayer with the spots below smaller. 

 A very much worn individual (May) has the back and crown largely dull 

 black, the hind neck largely buff in distinct contrast and the longitudinal 

 bands white. 



Geographical Range. — Southern Brazil and Paraguay south through 

 Argentina and Patagonia to the Falkland Islands. 



Obtained by the Princeton party at Rio Coy in October (full fresh plum- 

 age) ; Mt. Tigre, August; and Cape Fairweather, February (badly worn 

 breeding bird). 



