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place to another. Their notes reminded me of those of the English 

 Meadow Pipit. They resemble the latter bird also in their habit 

 of creeping through the grass and running quickly across the more 

 open spaces. 



139. Anthus lineiYentris. Stripe-bellied Pipit. 



Anthus lineiventris, Sundcv. (Efv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stochh. 1850, 

 p. 100 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 540, 852 (1884) ; 

 id. Cat. B. M. x, p. 540 (1885) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 12 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Above, brown, the feathers edged 

 with paler brown ; crown pale brown, the feathers with dark brown 

 centres ; wings dark brown, the coverts tinged with olive-yellow and 

 edged with fulvous, the quills with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown edged with lighter brown, the outer feather with a large 

 white patch on the inner web and at the base of outer web, the 

 next white at the tip of inner web, the third with a smaller white 

 spot ; feathers before eye dusky ; lores white ; eyebrow and ring 

 round eye yellowish ; ear-coverts brown, cheeks white spotted with 

 dark brown ; under surface dull white, the lower throat with 

 small triangular spots of blackish which become streaks on the 

 breast and sides ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts white streaked 

 with brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts olive-yellow. 



Iris brown ; uryper mandible blackish, the lower yellowish ; legs 

 and feet yellowish. 



Length 7'45 ; wing 3*50 ; tail 2-90 ; tarsus 1-10 ; culmen O65. 



Adult female. Eesembles the adult male in plumage. 



Distribution. From Natal through the Transvaal and Bechuana- 

 land to Angola. 



Habits. Of this rare Pipit, Mr. T. Ayres writes in the " Ibis " for 

 1880, p. 104, " Female, Eustenburg, July 29." " The stomach of 

 the specimen sent contained grasshoppers and other insects ; it is 

 a very uncommon species, frequenting rocky hill-sides, especially 

 where a stream, issues from the rock." 



140. Anthus crenatus. Larger Yellow-tufted Pipit. 



Anthus crenatus, Finsch and Hcvrtlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 275 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 543 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. x, 



p. 541 (1885) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 12 (1896). 

 Anthus lineiventris, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 123 (1867). 



Description. Adult male. (Cape Flats, August 12, 1897). 

 Crown and upper surface of body, as well as the wing, brown, the 



