from British Central Africa. 175 



from Nyasaland, it is distributed over the whole of South 

 Africa and Eastern Africa up to Abyssinia. 



124. FULICA CRISTATA Gm. 



The Crested Coot, here recorded from Nyasaland for the 

 first time, ranges over South, East, and North Africa into 

 Madagascar and Soutliern Europe. 



135. ToTANus ocHROPus (Liuu.). 



The Green Sandpiper, though here recorded for the first 

 time from Nyasaland, is generally distributed throughout 

 Africa. 



140. Glareola nuchalis Gray. 



Glareola nuchalis Reichen, Vog. Afr. i. p. 147 (1900). 



This species is new to Nyasaland, but was previously 

 known to range from Camaroons eastward to Southern 

 Abyssinia, and southward to the Zambesi. 



It is represented in the British Museum by the types of 

 G. nuchalis and G emini from the White Nile and by speci- 

 mens labelled: "Didesa R., Abyssinia, $, 21.3.99 (Lord 

 Lovat)," and "Between Zurubo and Lufue R., ^, 9.11.99 

 (Boyd Alexander).'^ 



Dr. Reichenow (/. c.) informs us that G. marchei Oust., 1877, 

 also belongs to this species and is not, as I had imagined, 

 the oldest name (provided with a description) for the nearly 

 allied form from the Niger and Liberia, the G. nuchalis 

 liberie Schl., 1881. 



Appendix. By G, E. Shelley. 



I may here add a few notes on a small collection of birds 

 from the Shire district, made for Lt.-Col. W. H. Manning, 

 H.B.M. Deputy Commissioner for British Central Africa, 

 by hunters belonging to the Scientific Department at Zomba, 

 attached to the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission 

 who are now engaged in settling the eastern frontier of the 

 British Central African Protectorate. 



The following 16 species are represented in this collec- 

 tion : — 



