240 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
The specimen has the chin and throat pale rose-coloured, washed with ferruginous, 
like the male in the spring figured by Naumann (Vég. Deutschl. t. 85. f. 1).—O. F. 
[Iris brown; beak horn-colour; legs and feet very light brown. 
The only specimen procured during my stay either in Abyssinia or Bogos.—W, J. ] 
80. AnTHUsS sorDIDUS, Riipp. 
Anthus sordidus, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 103, t. 39. f.1; Syst. Uebers. p. 59. no. 184; Heugl. Syst. 
Uebers. no. 266. 
?¢. Bejook. July 16 (no. 794). 
Waliko. July 21 (no. 1571). 
The only description of this rare species by Riippell is not correct in every respect, 
and it will therefore be useful to give another. 
All the upper parts dark earth-brown, each feather with a somewhat lighter margin ; 
primaries and secondaries dark umber-brown, a little darker than the back; the outer 
web very narrowly margined with earth-brown, uniform on the inner web, without paler 
margins: quill-coverts margined on the outer web like the remiges, but broader; from 
the nostrils to the temporal a narrow ochre whitish supercilium ; sides of the head and 
the body beneath pale brownish fulvous, darkest on the breast and sides; chin more 
whitish ; under quill-coverts brownish ; tail-feathers dark blackish brown, the outermost 
on the outer web and the apical third of the inner web pale brownish white; the second 
tail-feather only with a small brownish white apical spot on the inner web; under 
surface of wings greyish brown. 
Bill horn-brown, the mandible on the basal half pale yellowish; legs pale yellowish 
brown. 
This specimen (no. 1571) agrees very well with the figure given by Riippell. 
The other specimen in Mr. Jesse’s collection (no. 794) is similar to the one above 
described, but shows on the feathers of the throat and breast very narrow dark-brown 
shaft-stripes, also some on the feathers of the sides. 
Long. tota, Al. Cand, Culm. Tars,  Dig.int. Dig.post, Cum ung. 
Cc. 63" 3! qu gil gi 63!" 1Q" mw 4ll gi 
— 3.9 7 8) 6 113 7 33 7 
— 3.6 2 7 6 12 6 4 4 A, gouldi, Casamanse. 
About this species there is some confusion. Bonaparte, in uniting A. gouldi, Fraser, 
with A, sordidus, is, I believe, wrong. A specimen of A. gouldi, from the Casamanse, 
in the Bremen collection, is distinguished by the distinct dark-brown pear-shaped spots 
on the throat (jugulum), the dark-brown mystacal stripe, and the pale rusty margin on 
the basal portion of the inner web of the remiges; the fulvous colour of the under 
parts is also brighter, especially on the under tail-coverts. A specimen from the Bahr- 
el-ghazal in y. Heuglin’s collection (s. n. A. mystacalis) agrees with the West-African 
specimen, The Indian Agrodroma sordida of Jerdon (B. of Ind, ii, p. 236), which is 
