Mr. Ji.lj.La,y?Lr([ on South-African Ornithulugt/. 365 



125. Nectarinia collaris. The true habitat of this pretty 

 little species seems to be further east than the Gamtoos river, 

 where Mr. Atniore, who knows it well, never met with it. 

 Mrs. Barber sends it from the New-Year's river, and Dr. Edwin 

 Atherstone from the mouth of the Kleinmonts river, eight 

 miles east of the Kowie. 



169. Drym(eca subflava. Mr. Ortlepp has sent me seven 

 specimens from Colesberg, which lead me to think that " Le 

 Citrin " of Le Vaillant (pi. 127) is identical with D. pallida, 

 Smith (No. 147), and that D. pectoralis, Smith (No. 146), is 

 but the male. Unfortunately Mr. Ortlepp has left Colesberg; 

 and T am therefore precluded from obtaining a good series of 

 these birds, to set the point entirely at rest. I mention it here 

 in the hope of calling attention to the subject^. 



174. Calamodyta BABiEcuLA. " La Caqueteuse," Le Vaillant 

 (pi. 121, fig. 1). 



175. C. B^TicuLAf. "L'Isabelle," Le Vaillant (pi. 121, fig.2). 



176. C. RUFESCENS (Keyscrl. & Bias,). 



177. C. GRAciLiRosTRis, Hartl. I think I can clear up the 



confusion existing in the identification of the first two of these 

 four species, a confusion to which I have unfortunately added by 

 a lapsus calami, writing " Calamodyta rufescens," instead of " C. 

 gracilirostris " (No. 177), under the head of C. hahcecula. I had 

 my suspicions then that the " Caqueteuse " would prove to be 

 the larger species C. gracilirostris ; and these have been confirmed 

 by my shooting that bird in considerable numbers in the marshes 

 formed by the overflow of the Berg River, and by Mr. Cotze 

 obtaining the nest and eggs. These latter are dirty white or 

 cream -colour, spotted and blotched chiefly at the obtuse end 

 with brown and purple blotches ; axis 9'", diam. 6^'". Ver- 

 loren Vley is about twenty miles from where I procured C. gra- 

 cilirostris ; and I doubt not it is found on all intermediate beds 

 of reeds. Its habits and note quite agree with Le Vaillant's 

 description. 



[* Cf. supra, p. 291, Ed.] 



[t This word should be beeficata according to Professor Suiidevall (Krit. 

 framst. L.V. No. 121, 2).— Ed.] 



