202 Mr. F. A. Barratt's Notes on the Birds 



44. Apalis thoracica. 



I have never seen this species elsewhere than at Macaraac 

 and Pilgrim's Rest Gold-fields. 



45. Bradypterus BARRATTi,Sharpe,aw^ert,p.53. PlatelV. 

 I shot one of these birds near Pilgrim's Rest, Lydenburg 



Gold-fields ; but I cannot say much about it, as I had no time 

 to examine its habits. Another specimen was shot by one 

 of my people at the same place. 



Captain Shelley has also recently obtained a pair from one 

 of his collectors at Natal. 



46. PlNDALUS RUnCAPILLUS. 



Met with at Macamac and between that place and Pilgrim's 

 Rest Gold-fields. 



47. Chloropeta natalensis, Smith. 

 Sylvia natalensis, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 102. 

 Between Macamac and Lydenburg. 



48. ZOSTEROPS VIRENS. 



I shot this only at Macamac. 



49. Promerops gurneyi. 



This species was procured only between Pretoria and Ly- 

 denburg. I found it in the zuikerbosch, or sugar-bush. 



50. Nectarinia famosa. 



Common at the Lydenburg Gold-fields and Macamac^, and 

 about the bush near the Drakenberg mountains, also on the 

 sides of the hills amongst the aloes near Rustenberg. My 

 man brought me specimens from several places in the Trans- 

 vaal. I have seen it in the Colony and British Kaffraria. I 

 have had specimens in different plumage ; and they appear to 

 be at their best, at the Gold-fields, in January, in the rainy 

 season. They come out between the showers and fly about, 

 looking very gay in their light-green plumage. 



51. Nectarinia chalybea. 



I have procured this Sunbird at Macamac, near Lydenburg, 

 Rustenberg, near Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and in British Kaf- 

 frai'ia, where they are very abundant. I have seen as many 



