240 MOTACILLID^E MACRONYX 



divided from the breast by a black gorget, which extends up the 

 sides of the neck to terminate on each side below the eye ; sides of 

 breast and flanks tinged and streaked with brown ; edge of wing 

 bright yellow ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, thighs and under 

 tail-coverts yellow. 



Iris reddish-brown ; bill dark brown ; legs and feet pale brown. 



Length 8'50 ; wing 3*85 ; tail 3-25 ; tarsus 1-40 ; culmen 0-75. 



In winter the plumage is darker and more mottled above. 



Adult female. Kesemble the male in plumage but is slightly 

 smaller. 



Distribution. This species of Long-claw ranges over the greater 

 part of Africa to the south of the Sahara and extends as far south 

 as Natal, but is rarely found in Caps Colony. It is the com- 

 monest Long-claw in the lower parts of Natal, Zululand and the 

 Transvaal, but on the " high veldt " its place is taken by M. 

 capensis. At Pinetown, in Natal, both species occur, but the pre- 

 sent species is by far the commoner, as it also is, according to Mr. 

 F. A. Barratt, from Bloemfontein to Pretoria and thence to Kusten- 

 berg. It was not noticed by Andersson in Great Namaqua or 

 Damara Land but has been collected by Anchieta in Mossamedes 

 and Angola. 



Habits. This Long-claw does not appear to differ in any of its 

 habits from M. capensis, and in localities where the two species 

 occur together I have in vain tried to detect any peculiarity, apart 

 from colour, by which they might be distinguished. Their call- 

 notes are, to my ear, exactly the same, and their eggs are exactly 

 similar. 



. 137. Macronyx amelise. Pink-throated Long-claw. 



Macronyx ameliae, De Tarragon, Eev. Zool. 1845, p. 452 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i, pi. 54 (1848) ; Holub and Pelzeln, Orn. Siidafr. p. 87 (1882) ; 



Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 533 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. x, 



p. 628 (1885) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 13 (1896). 

 Anthus ainelise, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 206 (1848) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 124 (1867). 



Description. Adult male in summer. Above, buff-brown, the 

 feathers centred with black ; lesser wing-coverts dusky edged with 

 white ; rest of coverts dusky edged with buff; quills brownish-black 

 edged with buff ; tail-feathers brownish-black, except the outermost 

 which is white, all but the four centre ones tipped with white 



