510 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



utterly obscure native village, in the heart of Africa, with 

 no further details, is very greatly to be deplored. There 

 are generally some half-dozen ways, all more or less correct, 

 of spelling African names, and it would save hours of time 

 and research if collectors or systematic workers would state 

 the district in which the place they mention is situated. 

 [Found in the forest above Buea. — B. A.] 



50. Speirops melanocephala. 



Zoderops {Speirops) melanocephalus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (3) vol. X. 1862, p. 444 : Cameroon Mountains. 



a. (^ ad. (No. 7). Cameroon Peak. 2. iv. 09. 



b. ^ ad. (No. 2). „ „ 6.iv.09. 



c. ? ad. (No. 6). „ „ 14.iv.09. 



d. $ ad. (No. 5). „ „ 16.iv.09. 

 e,/. c? ? ad. (Nos. 3 & 4). „ „ 19. iv. 09. 

 y. ? ad. (No.l). „ „ 21.iv.09. 

 This is another of the numerous species which appears to 



be confined to the high forests of the Cameroon Mountains. 

 Shelley (' Birds of Africa,' ii. p. 202), on the authority of 

 Sjostedt, says that " the male has the undersurface paler 

 than the female, and more white on the throat.'' This is not 

 the case in the small series obtained by Alexander, the two 

 sexes being absolutely indistinguishable. 



[Not found in the forest below 8000 ft., but close to the 

 grass-land of the Peak. Seen in small flocks. — B. A.] 



51. Cinnyris oritis. 



Cinnijris oritis Reichw. Journ. fUr Orn. 1892, p. 190 : 

 Buea, Cameroon Mt. 



a. [ $ ] (^ ad. (No. 1). Cameroon Mt. 14.iv.09. 



b. S ad. (No. 2). „ „ 25.iv.09. 



c. d. S S ad. (Nos. 3, 4).' „ „ 10. v. 09. 



This is a rare Sunbird, confined to the Cameroon and 

 perhaps the Manenguba Mountains. It is very closely 

 allied to Cinnyris poensis, and when the African Sunbirds 

 are worked out according to modern ideas, C. 07'itis will 

 certainly become a subspecies. 



