112 EINAR LÖNNBERG, BIRDS. 



Budytes campestris Pall. 



Rchw. III, p. 306. 



Common in suitable localities. Especially it appeared to like such places, where 

 cattle was grasing. It was observed there sometimes in numerous flocks (e. g. Nairobi, 

 Kutu, Meru borna). 



Anthus cervinus (Pall.). 

 Rchw. III, p. 311. 



A female with rufous throat and rufous eyebrows was shot on the acacia-steppe at 

 Lekiundu river the 19 th of March. Other speciniens were observed the following day 

 among bushes at Luazomela river. 



Anthus trivialis (L.). 



Rchw. III, p. 311. 



Single specimens of the common Tree Pipit appeared to be scattered all över the 

 country. It was found almost everywhere as well on the acacia-steppe round Luazomela 

 river as on small open places high up in the bamboo-region of Mount Kenia. At the 

 Escarpment station I secured a specimen on a dry hill where the cedar forest had been 

 cut down. 



Anthus rufulus cinnamomeus (Rttpr. ). 



Rchw. III. p. 313. 



This Pipit was observed around Meru borna in open places which probably had been 

 cultivated but again abandoned and overgrown with weeds (but not bushes). One days 

 march from Meru borna at Kazere it was found outside the forest in a place covered with 

 different kinds of herbs and bracken, which, however, at this altitude was not so luxuriant 

 as in other places. A specimen shot here the 25th of March was a breeding male with 

 swelled testidés. 



Macronyx croceus (Vieill.). 



Rchw. III. p. 321. 



( lommon on grass-covered land at Nairobi and around Fort Hall. It was also seen 

 at upper Luazomela. The ventricle of the specimens examined contained beetles. 



Specimens shot at the end of March had their genital organs strongly swelled. It 

 often perches in trees or bushes if there are any such in the country where it lives. 



Tmetothylacus tenellus Cab. 

 Rchw. III. p. 325. 



This beautifnl Pipit was first met with just south of Guaso Nyiri not far from the 

 förd on the Marsabit road. It lived here on the acacia-steppe, and was fond of perching 

 in the tops of the acacias. Tn the thornbush north of Guaso Nyiri (e. g. Thera, Njoro 



