226 Mr. T. Ayres on the Onutliolorjy of Transvaal. 



tliese bars, and also in the bill being entirely black, and the 

 head and nape, especially the latter, much more richly glossed 

 with dark bluish green. — J. H. G.] 



BvRBATULA EXTONi, Layard. Exton^s Barbet. 



My friend Mr. Lucas found a nest of this little Barbet 

 with young ones in December ; the birds had bored a hole in 

 the rotten bough of a tree in the woods of the Magalies- 

 bergen, where this species is plentiful. 



CisTicoLA ABEiiRANs (Smith). Aberrant Fautail. 



I feel pretty sure that Mr. Gurney was right in stating, in 

 'The Ibis^ for 1880, p. 101, that C. smithli and C. aberrans 

 are distinct species, the latter being much the scarcer bird 

 here, and found in the scrub of the open plains, Avhere the 

 former is seldom met with. C. smithi is about the commonest 

 Warbler of the warmer and wooded parts of Transvaal, which 

 commence on the northern slopes of the range of mountains 

 called "^ Wit-waters-raand." This range forms the water- 

 shed which divides the streams that run northward into the 

 Limpopo from those that, flowing southward, empty them- 

 selves into the Vaal river, this watershed being the boundary 

 between the open, cold, and healthy country to the south, 

 and the wooded, hot, and more fever-stricken district to the 

 north. 



CiNNYRis MARiQUENSis, Smith. Southem Bifasciated 

 Sun-bird, 



This Sun-bird is by no means uncommon along the banks 

 of the Eland^s river, a little to the north of Rustenburg. 



[Tn 'The Ibis,' for 1871, p. 150, the previous note of Mr. 

 Avres on this species is given under the head of " Cimnjris 

 bifasciata." — J. LI. G,] 



CiNNYRis AMETHYSTiNUS (Shaw) . Amctliyst Sun-bird. 



This species is commum amongst the Magaliesbergen, 

 especially during our winter months, June, July, and August, 

 when it is in its brightest plumage. 



CiNNYRis TALATALA, Smith. Audcrssou's Sun-bird. 



This tiny and beautiful Lloney-sucker is a common Maga- 



