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29. HYPHANTORNIS JAMESONI Sharpe. 



This species is closely allied to H. xantliops from East Africa 

 and Nyasaland ; the birds obtained by Marshall (Ibis, 1900, p. 243) 

 and Alexander (Ibis, 1899, p. 574) from Mashonaland and the Zambesi 

 Valley are probably referable to this species and not to H. xantliops. 



33. SlTAGEA CAPENSIS OLIVACEA. 



The oldest name for this species according to Reichenow (Vog. 

 Afr. iii. p. 87) is olivaceus of Hahn. The bird is only subspecifically 

 distinct from S. capcnsis typicus, and should therefore be known as- 

 Sitagra capensis olivacea. 



34. SYCOBROTUS GREGALIS (Licht.). 



Eeichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 32) separates the southern Black-backed 

 Weaver from the form inhabiting Angola. He retains the earliest 

 name bicolor for the latter race, while fco our species he attaches 

 Lichtenstein's name gregalis. 



48A. LAGONOSTICTA RHODOPAREIA Heugl. 



This species must be added to the South African fauna ; it is an 

 East African bird whose range extends from Bogosland and Mombasa 

 to Nyasaland. There is, however, an undoubted example in the South 

 African Museum obtained in October, 1892, on the Uremma River, 

 near Beira. It resembles L. jamesoni, but is more richly coloured 

 and has small white spots along the sides of the breast and flanks, 

 which are absent in the other species. 



49. LAGONOSTICTA RENDALLI Hart. 



Shelley (B. Afr. iv. p. 260) separates under this name the Little 

 Ruddy Waxbill of Nyasaland and Southern Africa from that of tro- 

 pical and East Africa, which retains the older name L. brunneiceps. 



5lA. LAGONOSTICTA NITIDULA Hartl. 



I was fortunate enough to obtain an example of this rare species 

 (only before met with on Lake Tanganyika and on the Kuanza River, 

 in Angola) on the banks of the Zambesi, a few miles above the 

 Victoria Falls. 



This species can be at once distinguished from others of the genus 

 by the absence of the crimson upper tail coverts. It is olive-brown 

 throughout, the eyebrow, sides of the head, throat, and fore-breast 



