164 Capt. G. E. Shelley on Birds 



Mtonga is a country on the west side of Lake Nyasa, about 

 halfway up. 



Mwero Lake. — Lake Mwero or Mweru is to the west of 

 Lake Tanganyika, and some distance from Abercorn, which 

 is the capital of the Nyika plateau. 



Namaramba Lake. — This lake is N.E. of Lake Chiuta, in 

 Portuguese territory. It is marked Lake Amaramba in some 

 maps. 



Namasi or Namadzi (from *' madzi " = water) is a district 

 lying between Zomba and Blantyre. It is mostly undulating 

 country, with numerous small streams. Although there is 

 one that bears the same name, yet there are many smaller 

 streams in the district, flowing towards Lake Shirwa, which 

 are sujDerior to it, as they do not dry up so soon as the 

 Namadzi. On the Shirwa plain the Namadzi is more 

 often found with a dry bed than with water in it. The 

 specimens labelled thus are probably from the lower reaches, 

 near to the Palombe. 



Palombe River. — This river flows into Lake Shirwa 

 towards its southern end. 



Zomba (lat. 15° 22' S., long. 35° 17' 45" E.).— The 

 specimens from this place are, for the most part, captured 

 along the southern slopes. Birds are very numerous ; bush- 

 bucks are common on the top of the mountain, as also are 

 wild dogs, whose frequent visits to the plateau are to be 

 deplored, as they play dreadful havoc with the bush-bucks. 



The series submitted to Capt. Shelley on this occasion 

 contained about 285 specimens, which he refers to 140 

 species. Although none of these are new to science, 

 several (as will be seen by the notes) are new to the 

 Avifauna of Nyasaland. 



Of the whole series, 222 specimens have been selected for 

 the British Museum, and the remainder will be sent to the 

 South-African Museum, Cape Town. 



Capt. Shelley informs me that, including the present 

 additions, 471 species of birds are now known from the 

 Protectorate of British Central Africa. 



