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mottled with brown and purplish-grey; another egg is cream- 

 coloured, densely mottled with pale reddish-brown and purplish-grey ; 

 and a fifth is pale buff, densely mottled with pale brown. They 

 measure respectively : -65 by -02; -88 by '61 ; -8 by '6 ; '8 by 62 ; 

 82 by -57. 



4. Neddivatam, Nilghiri Hills, 6500 Hume Coll. 

 feet, May ( W. Uavison). 



1. Nilglriri Hills. Hume Coll. 



Anthus brachyurus, Sundev. 

 (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Anthus brachyurus, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. .327 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 

 Jiinh S. Africa, p. 539 (1875-84); id., Cat. Birds B. M. x.p. 551 

 (1885) ; St.ark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 248 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds 

 Afr. ii. p. 303 (1900); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 145 (1906). 



The eggs of the Cape Short-tailed Pipit are of a blunt oval shape 

 and possess very little gloss. They are white, freckled with pale 

 brown and grey. The markings form an irregular zone round the 

 broad end of the egg and are sparingly distributed elsewhere. 

 Three examples measure respectively : '65 by '52 ; '68 by *52 ; *67 

 by -52. 



3. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



Anthus vaalensis, Shelley. 

 (Plate Y. fig. 6.) 



Anthus gouldi, Gurnet/, Ibis, 1860, p. 208. 



Anthus leiicophrys, Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 368. 



Anthus pyrrhouotus, Sharpe (nee Vieill.}, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, 



p. 537 ( 1875-84) [pt.]; Butler, Feilden % Reid, Zool. 1882 r p. 336; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 555 (1885) [pt.] ; Stark. Fauna 



S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 250 (1900) [pt.]. 

 Anthus vaalensis, Shelley, Birds Afr. ii. p. 311 (1900) j Sharpe, Hand-l. 



v. p. 146 (1900). 



Eggs of the Tawny Plain-backed Pipit vary from an ordinary, 

 somewhat pointed oval shape to a broad, blunt oval, and are very 

 slightly glossy. They are whitish or cream-coloured, more or less 

 densely speckled and mottled all ever, or sometimes blotched, with 

 brown and underlying lavender. Two eggs from Lindley differ in 

 having all the surface-markings of a light rusty-brown or sienna. 

 Examples measure from '78 to *85 in length, and from -58 to '67 

 in breadth. 



7. Transvaal ( T. At/res: Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. 14-Streams, Vaal River, Nov. R. B. Woosnarn, Esq. [C.], 



2. Lindley, O.R.C., 22nd Dec. Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 



1. Newcastle, Natal, 10th Oct. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



3. Newcastle, 10th Nov. (J?. A. Butler.) Crowley Bequest. 



