from the Cape Colony. 147 



17. ^GiTHALUS MiNUTUS (Shaw). Le Becque-fleur, Levaill. 

 Ois. d'Afr. pi. 134; Sundev. Ofvers. 1850, p. 107. 



Layard, specim. no. 30. 



18. Parisoma layardt, Hartlaub, sp. nov. 



Supra saturate cinereum, tergo et uropygio vix pallidioribus ; 

 remigibus fuscis, intus albo-marginatis ; subalaribus albido 

 cinereoque variis ; gula alba, notis longitudinalibus cinereis 

 varia ; pectore et abdomine sordide albidis ; reetricibus qua- 

 tuor mediis totis nigro-fuscis, extima pro majore parte alba 

 (pogonio externo toto, interno ad apicetn large et oblique 

 albo), secunda ad apicem large alba; pedibus et rostro 

 nigris. Long, fere 5"; rostr. a fr. 4'"; al. 2"4"'; caud. a 

 bas. 2" 4'"; tars. 9|"'. 

 A typical Parisoma which seems to be undescribed. Dr. Jean 

 Cabanis, to whom I have submitted the bird for examination, does 

 not know it. I hope to be justified in the opinion of every orni- 

 thologist if I name it after Mr. E. L. Layard, whose collection 

 contains one example of this bird, labelled " Le Coryphee," and 

 "received from Zwartland, in the Malmesbury division.^^ 



19. ZosTEROPs pallida, Swainsou, An. in Menag. p. 294. 

 This being the first time I have met with this very rare species 



in South- African collections, I subjoin a description : — 



Supra cinerea, uropygio alho, subflavescente ; subtus albida, late- 



ribus brunnescente lavatis ; alis et cauda nigricanti-fuscis ; 



subalaribus albidis ; rostro fusco ; pedibus cinerascentibus ; 



annulo periophthalmico (in hoc specimine) vix conspicuo. 



Long. 3" 9'"; rostr. 4'"; al. 2" 5'"; caud. li"; tars. 7'". 

 A nearly allied species is Zosterops borbonica (Briss.). ]\Ir. 

 Layard's single specimen is numbered 39. 



20. Anthus ? 



Parvus ; supra in fundo dilute olivascenti-brunneo, maculis ni- 

 gro-fuscis magnis longitudinalibus varius ; remigibus ter- 

 tiai'iis pallide marginatis ; reetricibus fuscis, pallidius lim- 

 batis, extima fere tota albida, pogonio externo subfusces- 

 cente, secunda albida, intus late fusco-marginata ; subtus 

 flavicans, pectore maculis longitudinalibus fuscis ; subalari- 

 bus flavido fuscoque variis; subcaudalibus flavescentibus ; 

 pedibus pallidis ; mandibula pallida. Long. 4" 9'" ; rostr. 

 6'"; al. 2" 6'"; caud. 1" 9'"; tars. 8'"; ung. post. 6'". 



Allied to the A, limonellus of Licht. If new, Anthus icterinus. 



" From Mr. Cairncross of Swellendam." (E. L. L.) 



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