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Show 1881.] BIRDS FROM EASTERN AFRICA. 573 not descending so far down on the centre of the chest; no black ends to any of the wing-coverts ; primary-coverts more narrowly tipped with black. Spec. e. Similar to spec, d, with the white feathers of the throat ending at the base of the crop ; only the basal half of the primary-coverts white, the greater coverts broadly tipped with black. 51. MOTACILLA VIDUA. Motacilla vidua, Sund., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 263 ; Fischer J. f. O. 1879, p. 294 ; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 355. Ugogo. This species was first collected in the Zanzibar province by Dr. Fischer, at Muniuni. It ranges from the First Cataract of the Nile throughout East and South Africa, and thence on the west coast as far north as Lagos. 52. MOTACILLA FLAVA. Motacilla fiava, Linn., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 268 ; Fischer & Reichenow J. f. O. 1878, p. 268; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, pp. 294, 303. Pangani. This species ranges over the whole of Africa. 53. ANTHUS RAALTENI. Anthus raalteni, Temm., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 274 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, p. 207; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 18/8, p. 356 ; Cab. J. f. 0.1878, p. 220 ; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 268 ; Fischer, torn. cit. p. 279 ; id. J. f. O. 1879, pp. 294, 297, 299, 303; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 355. Pangani. 54. ANTHUS PYRRHONOTUS, Vieill. Melinda. New to East Africa. This species ranges throughout South Africa, and extends northward on the east coast to Melinda. 55. MACRONYX CROCEUS. Macronyx croceus (Vieill.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 276 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 220 ; Fischer & Beichenow, torn. cit. p. 267'; Fischer, torn. cit. p. 279 ; id. J. f. O. 1879, pp. 294, 303; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 355; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 125. Macronyx striolatus, Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1S78, p. 356. Usambara hills ; Dar-es-Salaam. On the east coast it ranges from the White-Nile district to Natal, and on the west coast from Senegal to Angola. The exact distribution in South Africa appears to me to be as yet a little uncertain; for although common in the eastern districts in suitable localities, |