The status and relationships of four pipit taxa described from central and southern Africa between 1899 and 1951, and currently associated with Anthus novaeseelandiae (Gmelin), still remain to be finally resolved, the forms being: Anthus latistriatus Jackson, 1899: Kavirondo, south-western Kenya, Anthus hoeschi Stresemann, 1938: Erongo Mts, South West Africa, Anthus richardi Iwenarum White, 1946: Balovale, north-western Zambia, and Anthus richardi editus Vincent, 1951: Sanqubetu R. valley, Lesotho. White, in the continuation of Peters' Check-List (1960), dismissed A. latistriatus as a melanistic aberration, placing it in the synonymy of A.n. cinnamomeus Rüppell, 1840: Simen, Ethiopia. In the same work, A. hoeschi was treated as a synonym of the xeric A. n. bocagei Nicholson, 1884: Humbe, Huila, Angola. In the cases of A. r. Iwenarum and A. r. editus, both were admitted as valid races of A. novaeseelandiae.