26 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 



Buzi. The feet in each case were dull leaden grey; the hill, 

 upper mandible and point o£ the lower dull sepia-coloured, 

 the rest of the gonys whitish or pale pink. Two stomachs 

 examined contained larvse and beetles only, no seeds. Length 

 in the flesh 6*5 inches. 



38. PoLiosPizA GULARis. Strcaky-headcd Seed-eater. 

 Rh. On the 12th of July, 1906, I shot one out of a 



party of five or six of these Seed-eaters which had settled in 

 the branches of a young Croton in my garden. Odendaal 

 has since sent me a further specimen shot by himself in the 

 same locality. 



39. Serinus sulphuratus. Large Yellow Seed-eater. 

 Rh. Mr. D. M. Stanley writes to me that a Canary 



obtained by him at Helvetia has been identified by Mr. W. 

 L. Sclater as Serinus sulphuratus. 



40. Serinus sharpii. East-African Yellow Seed-cater. 

 Serinus sharpei, Reichenow, Yog. Afr. iii. p. 266. 



Rh., P. This is one of our commonest birds throughout 

 Southern Melsetter and the Jihu. I have also noted it 

 at various points in the Mafusi district, in the Lusitu 

 and Nyahodi valleys in Northern Melsetter, and at an 

 elevation of about 6500 ft. in the Chimanimani Moun- 

 tains, where, in September last, I found it frequenting the 

 Pruteas and Brac/iystec/ias in some numbers. In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Chirinda it appears to be particularly partial to 

 sunflowers or old weed-covered lands, and on the Kurumadzi 

 to the Leonotis-clnmTps, perching below the whorls of bracts 

 and extracting the seeds ; both there and elsewhere it goes 

 about in parties or flocks, sometimes of considerable size, 

 diu'ing the winter months. This Canary is a very early 

 songster, commencing sometimes before dawn. 



1 found a nest on the 4th of September containing three 

 recently laid eggs. It was four feet from the ground in the 

 middle of a bunch of young custard-apple shoots (^Anona 

 senegalensis), a flimsy structure of small roots and bents 

 of Asparagus angolensis and other herbs, lined somewhat 

 scantily with the soft downy leaves of a common everlasting 



