PIPIT 203 



and usually lay three eggs of a sandy tint mottled with 

 reddish and purplish brown. 



Our friend, Mr. L. E. Taylor, of Irene, had the honour of 

 adding a Central African species to the South African list, 

 viz., the Golden Pipit {Tmetothylacus tenellus of Cabanis). 



FiQ. 108. — Tawny Pipit, nest and eggs. 



That this truly Tropical bird, in its gaudy yellow and black 

 attire, should have wandered as far south as the South 

 Central Transvaal, is somewhat strange. The Journal jur 

 Ornithologie (organ of the German Ornithological Society) 

 for January, 1907, contains a coloured plate of the female 

 (till then undescribed) and wings of both sexes. 



