40 PAKID^. 



g. cJ ad. sk. Inyati, Sept. 27, 1873. W. E. & C. G. Gates, Esqrs. 



h. <S ad. sk. Daiuara Land, Nov. 16, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



186G (Andersson). 



i. 2 ad. sk. Daniava Land, June 4, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1800 {Andersson). 



k. Ad. sk. Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



/. Ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. Piu-chased. 



38. Parus rufiventer. 



Parus rufiventris, Boccnje, Jorn. Ac. Lisb. xxii. 1877, p. 161 ; id. Orn. 



Angohi, p. 287. 



Adult. Entire mantle and back slaty grey ; npper tail-coverts 

 slightly darker ; tail black, with narrow white tips and edges to 

 some of the feathers ; wings and wing-coverts blackish brown, ex- 

 ternally edged with white ; crown black, with a slight gloss ; sides 

 of head, chin, and throat dull black, gradually passing over into the 

 slaty-grey of the fore neck and upper chest ; breast and abdomen 

 reddish fawn-colour ; thighs paler ; bill and feet black. Gulmen 

 0-5 inch, wing 3-35, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Angola. 



a. Ad. sk. Caconda, Benguela (Anchieta). Lisbon Museum [P.], 



39. Parus griseiventer. 

 Parus griseiventer, Heichenow, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 210. 



Allied to P. rufiventer. Head and neck black all round, with the 

 exception of a grey subocular streak extending from the gape along 

 the sides of the head ; entire back and sides grey ; abdomen steel- 

 grey ; under wing- and under tail-coverts white ; wings and tail 

 black, edged with white ; bill black ; feet lead-colour ; iris brown. 

 Wing 3-13 inches, tail 2-36. 



Hah. Eastern Africa : Lake Tanganyika. 



40. Parus ater. 



Parus ater, Linn. S. N. i. p. 341 (1766) ; Beseke, Vog. Kurlands, 

 no. 194 ; Bechstein, Vog. I)etctschl. p. 729 ; Betzius, Faun. Suecic. 

 p. 270; Koch, System, baier. Zool. p. 205; l\mm. Man. d'Orn. 



As. Soc. p. 104 ; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, i. p. 207 ; Naccyro, 

 Cat. Av. Galicia, in Mem. B. Acad. Madrid, i. p. 105 (1850) ; Bp. 

 C. A. i. p. 229 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 92 ; Kjarbolling, Danmarks 

 Fugle, pi. 24 (1854) ; Simdev. Svejisk. Fogl. pi. 16. fig. 4 ; Wright, 

 Finlands Fogl. i. p. 176 ; Salvad. Faun. Bui. ii. p. 68 ; Holland. 

 Wirbelth. Bommerns, p. 61 ; Dresser, B. Fur. iii. p. 87, pi. 107. 

 fig. 3 ; Danford S; Brown, Ibis, 1875, p. 303 ; Malm, Faun. p. 180 ; 

 Neiot. ed. Yarrell Brit. B. i. p. 489; Giglioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 194; 

 Booth, Bough Notes, pt. ii. pi. 



