PIPIT. 
Adidt male. The whole of the upper-surface of the body rich rufous-brown, each feather 
mesially streaked or marked with brownish-ash, lightest on the rump and upper 
tail-coverts; wing-coverts brownish-ash, widely margined with rufous-buff; inner¬ 
most secondaries brownish-ash margined with rufous-buff; primaries and outer 
secondaries ashy-grey, margined on tlie outer web with sandy-buff and on the 
inner webs with buffish-wliite ; outer pair of tail-feathers pure wliite with tlie margin 
of the inner web ash-brown; penultimate tail-feathers white, with the shaft and a 
margin on tlie inner web ash-brown; remainder of the tail blackish-brown, the 
centre pair bordered with rufous-buff; sides of the throat bordered with dusky, 
throat white; chest rufous-buff, with small streaks and spots of blackish-brown; 
sides of the body and flanks rich tawny-rufous ; middle of the belly buffish-wliite; 
under tail-coverts wliitish-buff with a mesial streak of blackish-browni. Eyes dark 
brown, legs yellowish, bill dark horn, lower mandible light horn. Total length 
160 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 92, tail 63, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected on the 
Sand Hill at Onslow, North-west Australia, on the 11th of January, 1907, and is 
the type of A. a. subrufas. 
The sexes are alike. 
Adidt male. Head olive-brown, each feather with blackish-brown down the shaft, 
producing a heavily streaked appearance; neck and mantle rufous-buff with 
dusky-brown centres to the feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts smoky-brown, 
with" indistinct dusky centres ; wing-coverts blackish-brown, margined with rich 
buff; secondaries blackish-brown, margined on the outer web with whitish-brown ; 
primaries blackish-brown slightly fringed with whitish-brown; outer tail-feather 
wlute, margined on the inner web with dusky-brown ; penultimate pair white, 
with the shaft black and with the inner web ahnost entirely black except the portion 
next the shaft; remainder of the tail-feathers blackish-brown, the central pair 
slightly margined with buS ; a narrow line of blackish feathers down the sides 
of the tliroat, which is wliite; chest and flanks rufous-bufi, streaked and 
spotted with blackish-brown; lower belly and abdomen w^hite; under tail-coverts 
rich buff. Eyes brown, feet pale brown, tarsus pale yellowish-brown. Bill, tomium 
and lower mandible fleshy-white, remainder brown. Total length 173 mm.; culmen 
12, wing 87, tail 65, tamus 27. Figured. Collected at Point Torment, North- 
West Australia, on the 7th of January, 1911, 
Adidt female. Entire upper-parts olive-brown with blackish-brown centres to the feathers, 
lower back and rump more dusky; wing-coverts blackish-brown, widely margined 
with buff; secondaries blackish-broivn, slightly fringed with greyish-buff ; primaries 
dusky-grey, bordered on the inner web with dirty white ; outer tail-feather white ; 
penultimate pair wliite, blackish along the inner w^eb; remainder of tail blackish- 
brown; tliroat white, with a line of black feathers down the side ; chest and flanks 
rufous-buff, liea-\ily spotted and streaked with blackish-brown ; middle of the 
belly wJiitish. l^es brown, feet and tarsus pale brown, lower mandible 
greyish-white. Total length 150 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 77, tail 55, tarsus 26. 
Figured. Collected in Van Diemen’s Gulf, Northern Territory, on the 23rd of 
August, 1912. 
Adidt , Head, back of neck and mantle olive-brown, each feather with dusky-brown 
centres ; rump olive-brown, slightly tinged with rufous ; secondaries browaiish-ash, 
widely margined on the outer web wdth tawny-rufous ; primaries brownish, slightly 
fringed on the outer web with whitish-buff ; outer tail-feathers pure white, with 
the greater part of the outer web brownish-ash; penultimate pair wliite, with the 
shaft and ahnost the whole of the inner web black ; remainder of the tail brownish- 
black, the middle pair fringed with wliitish; a line of blacldsh feathers bordering 
the tliroat, which is white ; chest, sides of the body and flanks rufous-buff, streaked 
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