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was also inclined to this belief, but was only convinced of the dis- 

 tinctness of the species by the fact that Mr. Marais assured me that 

 the greater number of the specimens obtained by him were adult, 

 with sexual organs enlarged and obviously in use. 



205. LANIARIUS SULFUREIPECTUS (Less.). 



Neumann (J. f. 0. 1899, p. 395) has divided this well-known and 

 widely spread species into four races ; the material for an examina- 

 tion of the validity of these races does not exist in the South African 

 Museum, but neither Sharpe (Ibis, 1901, p. 43) nor Hartert (Nov. 

 Zool. ix. p. 624) seems inclined to agree with his conclusions in 

 their entirety. Should the South African race be considered dis- 

 tinct, it may be known as L. sulfur eipectus similis Smith. 



225. CHLOEOCIHLA INSULARIS (Hartl.). 



Beichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 408) substitutes the above name for 

 oleaginns of Peters. The species is found throughout East Africa, 

 from Witu to Inhambane. 



228A. CRINIGER MILANJENSIS (Shell.). 



An undoubted example of this species, first described by Shelley 

 (Ibis, 1894, p. 9, pi. i. fig. 1), from the Milanji hills in Nyasaland 

 from a specimen procured by Mr. Alexander Whyte, was sent to 

 me some little time back by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. He procured 

 it in the Chirinda forest, in the Melsetter district of Southern 

 Ehodesia, on the borders of Portuguese territory, in the month of 

 December. It is very like the other green bulbuls, such as 

 Chlorocichla flaviventris, but can be at once distinguished by its 

 white-streaked ear coverts. 



jgH 241. CRYPTILLAS VICTORINI (Sund.). 



Oberholser (P. Acad. Philad., 1899, p. 211) has pointed out that 

 the generic term Phlexis of Hartlaub is preoccupied in Coleoptera by 

 Phlcxys of Erichson. He proposes to substitute Cryptillas as above. 



242. EURYPTILA SUBCINNAMOMEA (Smith). 



Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, p. 338) gives particulars of the nesting habits 

 of this bird as observed by Messrs. Seimund and Grant in the 

 neighbourhood of Deelfontein. The nest was found, on December 

 8th, in the grass at the foot of a big rock on a kopje and was 

 composed chiefly of spiders' web ; the eggs, three in number, were 



