288 MOTACILLID^. 



tachial line ; flanks unstreakecl ; thighs and under tail coverts deep sandy buff ; 

 axillaries and under wing coverts dusky with sandy margins. 



Length. 7 to 8 inches ; wing 3-4 to 37 ; tail 2-85 to 3-05 ; tarsus I to IT ; 

 culmen 0*65 ; hind claw strongly curved, primaries emarginate, 2-3 x 4*5 ; 

 equal 3rd and 4th. 



Hal. North-Eastern Africa as far as the Upper Nile regions and occurring 

 throughout North-Western India as far as the Neilgherries (Sharpe), but every- 

 where sparingly. Jerdon says he obtained it on the Segoor Pass of the Neil- 

 gherries, where they were found seated on rocks by the roadside and occa- 

 sionally descending to the road to feed on insects. The British Museum has 

 two specimens from Coonoor. Hume, who calls this species the Neilgherry Tit- 

 Lark, says it is a very rare bird even on the Neilgherries. The eggs obtained 

 by, Dr. Jerdon, Hume says, closely resemble those of Alauda Malabarica, but 

 are more glossy. They are moderately elongated ovals, somewhat compressed 

 and pointed towards one end with a creamy white ground, densely, but very 

 minutely freckled and speckled all over with very pale yellowish brown and 

 pale. purplish grey. The eggs were taken on the i6th May and measured 

 0*85 x O'65. 



799. AnthUS Jerdoni (Finsch.), Sharpe, Cat. It. Br. Mus. x. 

 p. 562. Agrodroma Jerdoni, Finsch., Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 241 ; Hume and 

 Henders., Lahore to Yarlt., p. 227 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Lid. B. p. 386 ; 

 Brooks, 5/r.F. 1875, p. 252; Hume and Butler, Str.F. 1875, p. 491 ; Butler, 

 Sir. F. 1877, p. 230; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 61. Corydalla griseo- 

 rufescens, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 286. Agrodroma sordida (nee Rupp.}, Jerd., 

 B. Ind. ii. p. 236; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, p. 42; Murray, Hdbk. Zool., $-c., 

 Sind, p. 169; id., Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 173. The BROWN ROCK PIPIT. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts dull earthy 

 brown, the feathers edged paler ; wings and tail darker brown than the upper 

 parts ; supercilium fulvous or fawn coloured ; a faint brown stripe from the 

 base of the lower mandible down the sides of the throat ; primaries, seconda- 

 ries and tertiaries as in the last, but edged with rufescent ; first primary short, 

 dark brown, outermost feathers rufescent on their outer webs, and for about 

 an inch and a quarter obliquely on their inner webs at the tip ; rest of the 

 feathers dark brown, the next dark brown, except at the tip and for a short 

 distance (i of an inch) along the shaft ; chin and throat whitish ; rest of under 

 surface bright rufescent fawn; the breast with a few indistinct streaks. Bill 

 dusky ; lower mandible yellowish, except at tip ; legs yellowish. 



Length. 775 to 8 inches ; wing 4 ; tail 3-5 ; bill at front 0-5. 



Hab. India generally to the Himalayas, Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 N. Guzerat, Deccan, Beloochistan and Persia. Breeds in the Punjab and 

 N.-W. Provinces from May till the middle of July low down the hill side. 

 Captain Marshall, who took its eggs at Murrec, says the eggs are not unlike 



