Birds from Nyasaland. 



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III. Descriptions of the new Species. By G. E. S. 



Otyphantes sharpii, sp. nov. 



Upper surface entirely olive-yellow and black ; under 

 surface entirely bright golden yellow ; lores^ cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, top and back of head jet-black ; the plumage 

 gradually shading off into uniform olive-yellow on the lower 

 back, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; the feathers of the upper 

 back and wings being black with broad pale edges of olive- 

 yellow, becoming almost clear yellow on the quills ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margins of the quills yellow : bill 

 black; tarsi and feet pale brown. Total length 6"2 inches, 

 culmen 07, wing 3*15, tail 2*6, tarsus 095. 



Hab. Nyasaland (exact locality unrecorded). 



Allied to Symplectes stuhlmanni, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 

 1893, p. 29. 



Amydrus nyas^, sp. nov. 



Closely allied to A. caffer in size, form, and colouring of 

 both sexes when the wings are closed, but differing in the 

 dark under surface of the wings, which is black, with the 

 pale portion uniform deep chestnut both below and above, 

 and the shafts crossing the rufous portion are above brownish 

 black instead of white. Total length, $ 9'5, ? 9T inches; 

 culmen, $ OSS, ? 0-8; wing, $ 5-3, ? 5-15; tail, $ 3-9, 

 ? 3-8; tarsus, $ 1-05, ? 1. 



Hab. Nyasaland (exact locality unrecorded). 



