ANTHIDJE. 147 



The beak is dark brown, inclining to light j^ellow at 

 the base of the lower mandible ; hides hazel ; head 

 streaked dark dusky brown and olive ; nape and ear- 

 coverts olive ; over the eye there is a light streak ; 

 back and scapular feathers dark dusky, almost black, 

 margined with olive ; tail-coverts the same, but the 

 margins are broader, hardly allowing any of the 

 dark part in the centre to appear; greater and 

 lesser wing- coverts dusky, margined with very light 

 brown, almost white ; quills dusky, tertials margined 

 with olive ; tail dusky, the two centre feathers being 

 margined with olive and the two outside feathers 

 white, except a small patch of dusky in the inner 

 web there is also a small patch of white at the tip 

 of the two next feathers ; throat white, slightly 

 tinged with yellowish olive; a dark broken streak 

 runs on each side of the neck from the base of the 

 lower mandible to the breast ; the breast itself white, 

 tinged with yellowish olive, most deeply at the sides, 

 and spotted with dusky ; belly and under tail-coverts 

 white, tinged with yellowish olive ; the flanks have a 

 deeper tinge of the same ; legs, toes and claws light 

 brown ; claw of the hinder toe quite as long as the 

 toe. The strong olive tinge on the whole plumage 

 becomes less in the spring and summer, owing to the 

 wearing of the margins of the feathers. 



The eggs of the present species in many cases very 

 closely resemble those of the Tree Pipit, and there- 

 fore require to be very carefully identified before 



