3-10 COLIID^. 



through ; under wing-coverts ochreous buff j the lower series and 

 the quill-lining chestnut : " upper mandible black, the lower one 

 light horn-colour ; feet horn-colour " {E. L. Laijard). Total 

 length 14 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-8, tail 9-1, tarsus 0-8. 



I cannot follow Captain Shelley in recognizing three races of 

 Colius striatus. The rufous on the forehead is not peculiar to 

 Cape Colony specimens only, but is found in Natal specimens 

 also. I am under the impression that this dark forehead is 

 the result of a stain, probably of fruit. Specimens from the Zambesi 

 and Natal are rather smaller than the Cape Colony ones, but this 

 is a well-known rule with South-African birds. The probability 

 is, likewise, that the Cape Colony form ( C. intcrmedius of Shelley) 

 would be the original Coly met with by Sonnerat rather than the 

 Natal form, and consequently would be the true Colius striatus of 

 Scopoli. 



Hab. South Africa, from the Cape Colony to Natal and as far as 

 the Zambesi Eegion. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Africa {Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape Colony (C. J. Anders- Shelley CoU. 



son). 



d. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.], 

 /, g. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.J. 

 h, i. $ ad. et juv. Knysua, Dec. (C J. Anders- Sharpe Coll. 



sk. son), 



k. S ad. sk. Kiugwillianistown, Jmie 19. Major Trevelyan 



[P.]. 



I. Ad. sk. , Natal {F. Oates). W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Esqra. [P.]. 



m-o. Ad. sk. Natal, July. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 



l)-t. Ad. sk. Durban, Natal, Feb., April. SheUey Coll. 



M. c? ad. ; V, ?y, $ Swaziland, July {T. E. SheUey CoU. 



ad. sk. Buckley). 



X. (S ad. sk. Macamac, East Transvaal, F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



Sept. IG. [P.]. 



y, z. Ad. sk. River Shu-e [Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Exped. 



a'. Ad. sk. Zambesi (Dr. Meller). Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Colius leucocephalus. 



Colius leucocephalus, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 114 (Kina- 

 bomba) ; Fischer ^- Reichen. J.f. 0. 1879, p. 341 ; Fischer, J. f. 0. 

 1885, p. 123 (Wapokomoland ; Little Ai-uscha) ; Shelleii, Ibis, 

 1885, p. 312. 



Achdt. Crown and sides of head white ; throat, sides of neck, 

 hind neck, mantle, and least wing-coverts ashy whitish, finely 

 banded across with dusky ; throat blackish ; lower back, wings, and 

 tail ashy brown ; abdomen vinaceous ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 buff: "bill plumbeous; feet rosy; orbits bare ashy grey " (G^. ^. 

 Fischer). Total length 11 inches, wing 3-35, tail 8-4. 



Hah. East Africa. 



