Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)

Golden Pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus) - HBW 9, p. 771

French: Pipit doré German: Goldpieper Spanish: Bisbita Dorado

Taxonomy: Macronix tenellus Cabanis, 1878, Taita, south-east Kenya.
Apparently closely related to Hemimacronyx and Macronyx. Monotypic.

Distribution: SE Sudan and NE Uganda, and from NW Somalia and E & SE Ethiopia S to E Kenya and NE & C Tanzania.