from JVitu, British East Africa. 137 



16. Anthothreptes hypodila. 



Anthothreptes hypodila (Jard.) ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afr. p. 210 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 6 (1896). 



Anthodiata hypodila Shelley, Mouogr. Nectar, p. 345, 

 pi. iii. figs. 1, 2. 



Nos. 18, 23, 24, d ? ad. Witu, May 11-14, 1891.— Breeding. 

 Bill and legs black ; iris brown. 



17. CiNNYRis BRADSHAWi Sharpe, sp. n. 

 No. 55, 6 ad. Witu, June 16, 1891. 



[This seems to be a small form of C amethystina, and has 

 metallic purplish upper tail-coverts. It is closely allied to 

 C. deminuta of Angola, and has even a smaller bill than that 

 race. The general colour of the plumage is velvety brown, 

 not black, as in C. amethystina. I find a second specimen 

 in the British Museum from the Zambesi, collected by the 

 late Dr. Bradshaw, an excellent field-naturalist, who died 

 at his post on the Orange River, the natural history of 

 which district he was engaged in studying at the time of his 

 death. I have named the species after him. — R. B, S.] 



18. ClNNYRIS KIRKI. 



Cinnyris kirki Shelley, Monogr. Nectar, p. 273, pi. 85 ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 592 ; Reichen. Voy. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. 

 p. 210 (1894). 



Chalchomitra kirki Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 5 (1896). 

 No. 4, S ad. Witu, May 4, 1891. 



19. Cinnyris ragazzii. 



Cinnyris ragazzi Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. 

 p. 247 (1888). 



Cyanomitra ragazzi Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 5 (1896). 

 No. 25, 6 . Witu, May 14, 1891.— Legs brown. 



[Compared with a typical specimen from Slioa in the 

 British Museum.— R. B. S.] 



20. Laniarius approximans. 



Laniarius approximans (Cab.) ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afr. p. 178 (1894). 



Malaconotus approximans Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 57 

 (1896). 



