Page 528. M i r a f r a c h e n ia n a .
Near Potchefstroom (Ayres).
Page 530. M a c r o n tx c a p e n s is .
“ Common in tlie south-eastern parts of the colony and tlie Transvaal,
bnt not fonnd along tlie northern border of the colony: it prefers
grass-country. X have not seen it on the Zambesi ’ (Bradsha/iv).
Southern and Western Transvaal: Linokana (Holub).
Page 533. M a c r o n tx Amelia:.
Pantamatehka River (Dr. Bradshaw; teste Holub). ■
Page 534. A n t h u s c a f f e r .
Potchefstroom and Rustenberg districts (Ayres).
Page 539. A n t h u s b r a c h t u r u s .
Pound sparsely among the open glades of the hill-sides in the
Rustenberg district (Ayres).
Page 540. A n t h u s l i n e i v e n t r i s .
Rustenberg (Ayres).
Page 544. Insert : |S A n t h u s t r i v i a l i s (L.). Tree Pipit.
In his “ Svenska Foglama,” Professor Sundevall has recorded a specimen
as having been shot on the Limpopo River between lat. 25°
and 26° S. (cf. Malmgren, Ibis, 1867, p. 230). The following is a
description of the adult male in breeding plumage. General
colour above sandy brown, streaked with black, a little more
narrowly on the head, all the feathers mesially centred with black
streaks; the mantle rather lighter sandy buff than the rest of the
upper surface; rump rather more uniform than the back; upper
tail-coverts sandy brown edged with ashy fulvous, and narrowly
centred with blackish ; least wing-coverts like the back ; median
series blackish tipped with white, forming a wing-bar; greater
series dark brown, edged externally with whity brown, more
ashy towards the base; bastard-wing blackish brown narrowly
edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown,
narrowly edged with whity brown, the first primary margined
with whitish, the inner secondaries browner on the outer web,
and more broadly edged with dull whitish ; tail-feathers brown,
the two centre feathers margined with whity brown, the outermost
dull white, with a dark brown shaft and a broad oblique mark of
dark brown on the inner web, the outer web pale brown towards
the end ; penultimate tail-feather with a small wedge-shaped spot
of white at the tip of the inner web; lores and a tolerably-defined
eyebrow sandy buff, as well as the eyelid and ear-coverts,
rather more dusky along the upper and hinder margins; cheeks
sandy buff, with an indistinct superior line of black, and separated
from the throat by a blackish malar lin e ; throat, breast and sides
of body sandy buff, the chin whitish ; the lower throat, fore-neck
and breast broadly streaked with black, a little more narrowly on
the breast, sides of body and flanks; centre of breast and abdomen
buffy white, clearer sandy buff on the under tail-coverts; axillaries
and under wing-coverts sandy buff, those near the edge of the
wing mottled with dusky bases ; lower primary-coverts and quills
ashy brown, lighter on the inner webs.
Total length, 5'8 inches; culmen, 0 '5 5 ; wing, 3‘4 5 ; tail, 2’55 ;
tarsus, 0'9.
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. iii, pi. 132.
Page 545. M o t a c i l l a v id u a .
“ Very common on the Orange River, but scarce in the colony : met
with sparingly about the Victoria Falls, Zambesi ” (Bradshaw).
Page 547. M o t a c i l l a c a p e n s is .
Very common on the Orange River (Bradshaw).
Page 550. B u d y t e s f l a v a .
A male shot by Wahlberg at Port Natal (cf. Sundevall, Svenska
Foglarna, p. 46).
Page 551. In se rt:—B u d y t e s v i r id i s (Scop.).
Grey-Headed Yellow Wagtail.
Mr. Seebohm’s collection contains a specimen procured by T. Ayres
in the Transvaal.
This species has the head dark grey without any pale eyebrow.
Fig. Dresser, Birds of Europe, iii, pi. 129.
Page 551. C o liu s e r y th r o m e lo n .
Tati River (Bradshaw: teste Holub).
Page 552. C o l iu s c ap e n s is .
Colius erythrojnis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 221.
Very common on the Orange River; the only species found on the
Border: iris dark brown ; bill bluish; legs bright coral red (Bradshaw)
.
Modder River, Orange Free State (Holub).
Page 555. C o l iu s s t r i a t u s .
Not uncommon at Estcourt, Natal, in A p ril; Durban, December
(Reid).