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indistinguishable from phaeonotus from the Cape Province. It 

 therefore casts some doubt on the validity of Roberts's form. 



Family COLIIDAE, Colies 



COLIUS COLIUS (Linnaeus) 



Loxia colius Linnakus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 301, 1766 (Cape of Good 

 Hope). 



Mrs. Sordahl shot a female in some bushes close by a waterhole 

 near Fish River at Berseba, November 10, 1929, and another female 

 13 miles southeast of Berseba, February 25, 1931. She found them 

 in flocks of considerable size. Of the bird collected in February she 

 noted that " * * * the skin was grey and black in spots. It was 

 infested with lice, and had parasitic worms in the intestine." 



Sclater * states that G. c. damarensis Reichenow does not appear 

 to be separable. I therefore use a binomial for these specimens. 



Family CAPITONIDAE, Barbets 



TRICHOLAEMA LEUCOMELAS LEUCOMELAS (Boddaert) 



Bucco leucomelus Boddaert, Table des planches enlumineez, p. 43, 1783. [Cape 

 of Good Hope (ex Daubenton, pi. 688, fig. 1)]. 



Two males were collected at 3,500 feet on Mount Brukkaros on 

 March 13, 1931. Both were sitting in trees in the crater of the 

 mountain and were uttering a series of wheezing notes not unlike 

 those of the American sapsuckers {Sphyrapicus) . 



These two specimens have no spots or streaks on the under- 

 parts and are therefore not T. I. namaqua of Little Namaqualand. 

 They are both young birds with no red on the forehead, and they 

 lack the toothlike notches on the maxillary tomia. They agree with 

 the description and figure of T. a-ffine Shelley, which is the young of 

 leucoTYielas. 



In Zululand a race suluensis Roberts occurs, said to be decidedly 

 yellower below than either leucomelas or nainaqua. 



Family PYCNONOTIDAE, Bulbuls 



PYCNONOTUS NIGRICANS NIGRICANS (Vieillot) 



Ttirdus nigricans Vieillot, Nouveaii dlctionnalre d'bistoire naturelle, vol. 20, 

 p. 253, 1818 [banks of the Orange River in Namaqualand (ex Levaillant)]. 



Two males were obtained at Berseba, one on July 24, 1930, and 

 one on October 6, 1930. Another male was collected 6 miles from 

 Berseba on March 1, 1931. The eyes were recorded as bright red 



* Systema avium Ethiopicarum, pt. 1, p. 266, 1924. 



