728 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Motacilla longicauda Rippell 
Motacilla longicauda Ritppell, Neue Wirbelth. Abyssinien gehér., Birds, p. 84, pl. 29, 1839: Abys- 
sinia, Simen. 
Length 7 inches, gray above, darker on head; a white eyebrow stripe; lores black; below white 
with a black breast-band; wing-coverts black tinged with gray, wings black, the outer feathers 
with long white marks on inner edges, the inner wing-feathers white at inner base, with broad white 
outer edges; four middle tail-feathers black, the four outer pairs white. Africa, especially the 
east and south parts. 
Biittikofer supplies the only record, which at the time was the first for west- 
ern Africa, of a bird taken at the falls of the Du, where it was in company with 
the preceding species. Its habits are similar for it is said to delight in the moun- 
tain streams, feeding close along the edges of the water. 
Budytes flavus flavus (Linné). Yellow Wagtail 
Motacilla flava Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 185, 1758: ‘‘Europe”’ (=Sweden). 
Slender, length 6.5 inches; above olive brown, greener and yellower on lower back; wings 
blackish brown, the feathers edged with buff or whitish; tail black except the two outer feathers 
on each side which are mostly white; a buffy eye-stripe; throat whitish, breast, belly and under 
tail-coverts bright yellow. Breeds in Europe; winters in Africa. 
This familiar European bird is a winter resident in Africa, and is not at all 
uncommon in Liberia, frequenting open banks of streams or coming familiarly 
about the village outskirts in open cleared ground. Biuttikofer mentions it as 
‘not rare” about Grand Cape Mount, and Stampfli took two on the Junk River 
in December, while Lowe found it in January on the southern coast at Subono 
and Nana Kru. In Sierra Leone it arrives as early as late September from the 
north, coming at the close of the rains and staying till early April. No doubt the 
same is true of it in Liberia. We saw the first one at Paiata on October 5, 
a female, walking tamely about on the open gravel behind some native huts. 
Another was taken October 24, a male, at Banga, one of two, walking around 
the feet of a bullock grazing outside the village. The migration evidently ex- 
tends into early November, for going north by steamer from Monrovia about 
November 12, one or two came aboard the ship and were carried back on their 
course for two days before leaving the vessel. 
Anthus gouldi gouldi Fraser. Gould’s Pipit 
Anthus gouldu Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1848, p. 27: Cape Palmas. 
Length 7.5 inches; blackish brown above, greater wing-coverts edged with rusty; an indistinct 
eye-stripe; throat white, breast and under parts washed with cinnamon; a band of large dusky 
triangular spots across the breast; outer tail-feathers with pale edges. West Africa. 
This is the Anthus pyrrhonotus of Bittikofer and Chubb. It is generally 
distributed wherever there are cleared open spaces, as along the more travelled 
roadways or on open plains. It is quick to come in to newly cleared ground, 
as at the Firestone plantation on the Du, where a number were daily seen 
feeding on the bare ground, which but a few months before was virgin forest, 
now felled and burned, leaving only charred stumps and uncovered soil. Biitti- 
kofer notes that it is found in pairs on “farms” and grassy plains soon after 
