from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 145 



[This active little bird swarms all over the thick woods 

 of the Abyssinian valleys. Like Zosterops poliogaster, it is 

 widely distributed throughout the low country. — L.] 



83. ZOSTEKOPS POLIOGASTER. 



Zosterops poliofjaster Heugl. ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 ix. p. 169 (1881) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi. p. 141 

 (1884), & xxvi. p. 249 (1888). 



a. S . Warabili, Abyssinia, 3 January, 1899. (No. 101.) 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs dark. 



[A very common bird. The telephone- wire, along which 

 one inarches for 200 weary miles to Addis Abbeba, seems to be 

 a cause of great destruction to this beautiful little Silver-eye, 

 and many specimens were brought in by our raule-men in 

 the hope of receiving the dollar reward given for a new 

 bird.— L.] 



84. Parus leucomelas. 



Parus leucomelas Biipp. Neue Wirbelth., Vog. p. 100, 

 pi. 37. fig. 2 (1835). 



Parus niger \a. northern race] Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 viii. p. 7 (1883). 



Melaniparus leucomelas, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvi. 

 p. 243(1888). 



a. S- Telagubaie, Abyssinia, 17 February, 1899. 

 (No. 327 ) 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs dark slate-colour. 



85. Parus leuconotus. 



Painis leuconotus Guer. ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. 

 p. 10 (1883). 



Melaniparus leuconotus Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi. 

 p. 137 (1881), & xxvi. p. 243 (1888). 



a. ? . Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 120.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



86. ^GITHALUS MUSCULUS. 



jEgithalus musculus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1882, p. 326 [Lado] ; 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 476. 



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