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MOTACILLID^E 



ANTHUS 



feathers with paler edges, the wing-coverts, primaries and outer 

 secondaries edged with greenish-yellow ; tail-feathers dark brown 

 tinged with greenish-yellow towards the base, the outer feather 

 edged externally with fulvous and tipped with white, the next 

 tipped with white only; eye-ring, eyebrow, cheeks and throat 

 whitish ; a streak through the eye dusky ; ear-coverts rufous 

 streaked with white ; under surface of body fulvous, the chest and 

 sides narrowly streaked with rufous ; edge of wing and axillaries 

 olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts olive-brown. 



Antlmis crenatus. 



Iris hazel ; upper mandible brown, the lower yellowish ; legs 

 and feet flesh colour. 



Length, in flesh, 7'20 ; of skin 6-80; wing 3'45 ; tail 2-60; 

 tarsus 1-00; culmen 0-68. 



Distribution. This rare Pipit was obtained by Layard near 

 Cape Town ; a second example was collected by Andersson in the 

 same neighbourhood, and a third, the one described, by myself on 

 the Cape Flats. Mr. T. C. Atmore shot a male at Burghersdorp 



