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nally edged with dull sandy buff ; the dorsal feathers dull whitish on 

 their inner webs, producing a distinctly varied appearance: scapu- 

 lars more uniform, the longer feathers with a subterminal shade of 

 dark brown, the edges and tips being dull sandy buff; lower back 

 and rump also rather more uniform than the rest of the back, only 

 slightly mottled with dark brown subterminal spots : tail-feathers 

 dark brown with nearly obsolete edges of sandy-buff, the two middle 

 feathers margined with ashy whitish ; the two outside feathers smoky 

 brown with a faintly indicated oblique mark of darker brown on the 

 inner web, the tips white, and the outer web distinctly darker brown 

 towards the tip : least wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater series blackish brown, very broadly edged with dull whitish ; 

 primary-coverts and primaries dark brown, narrowly edged with 

 yellowish buff, the first long primary dull white for nearly the entire 

 length of the outer web ; secondaries brown with a tiny white tip 

 and externally edged with dull white and sandy buff : lores and a 

 distinct eyebrow dull whitish; ear-coverts brown, washed with sandy 

 buff, tipped with darker brown, with whitish shafts ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body dull white, tinged with buff on the cheeks and 

 breast ; throat and abdomen uniform, the chest marked with trian- 

 gular spots of brown ; a distinct moustachial streak of brown ; sides 

 of body washed with fulvous brown and longitudinally streaked with 

 dark brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts buffy white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing mottled with 

 tiny brown spots ; quills brown below, whitish along the inner web ; 

 bill horn-brown, the under mandible paler ; legs waxy yellow. 

 Had. Peru. 



Syn. Anthns rufus, Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 1/3. 

 Anthus chii, Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 187-4, p. 50G. 



This species is of the same small size as the bird called in the 

 British Museum and by most ornithologists A. chii, but more cor- 

 rectly by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin A. rufus. It is not so yellow 

 below ; and this is a point that strikes the'observer at once. On com- 

 paring the upper surfaces the white edgings of the wing-coverts and 

 dorsal feathers in A. peruvianus are very noticeable. But the chief 

 difference lies in the outer tail-feathers, which are white in A. chii, 

 smoky brown in A. peruviamis. The oblique mark of dark brown 

 on the inner web is distinct in the former, nearly obsolete in the 

 latter. Both species have a brown mark near the tip of the outer 

 web. 



The typical specimens were collected by Mr. Henry Whitely in 

 Peru, the male in the Cataridon valley on the 12th of February 1867, 

 the female at Islay ou the 17th of the same month. 



