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birds ill the flesh, resulting in an average of 7*82 inches 

 and a variation of Irom 6'5 (a very small female) to 8*5. 

 The nestling (No. 1071), nearly fledged, resembles the old 

 bird in the coloration of its upper surface, but has the breast 

 duskier and mere traces of the future yellow markings. Bill 

 0'6; wing 225 ; tarsus 0"75. 



94. Phyllostrophus milanjensis. Milanji Bulbul. 



Xenocichla milanjensis Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 9, pi. i. fig. 1. 



K,h., P. In calling to one another these birds will fre- 

 quently sidle along the branch with little hops, or take a 

 short-paced run along it for a few inches at a time. This 

 is a far more frugivorous Bulbul than P. flavistriatus : 

 26 stomachs have been examined up to the present, of which 

 twelve contained fruits only (those of the forest Celtissiwd of 

 a fine Maba are the favourites) ; seven, fruits and insects ; 

 and only seven, insects alone. 



Seventeen of these birds averaged 8*04 in the flesh, with a 

 maximum of 8o inches and a minimum of 7'6. 



95. Sylvia simplex. Garden-Warbler. 



Rh. Between April 3rd and 10th of this year I again twice 

 noted one of these birds in a tall /So/a/iMwi-hedge on the 

 outskirts of Chiriuda, working along amongst the upper 

 twigs in search of insects and occasionally stopping to utter 

 its loud and fluent song. 



96. Phylloscopus tkochilus. WiUow-Wren, 



Rh., P. On my return from the low veld this year I 

 began to find this Warbler when ascending through the 

 upper Jihu on the 10th January, and it remained plentiful 

 in the neighbourhood of Chiriuda, carefully searching the 

 foliage of my rubber and castor-oil plants and frequenting 

 both grass-jungle (Avhere the foliage of the thorny Acacias 

 appears to be particularly attractive) and the outskirts 

 of the forest. It disappeared this year in the middle of 

 March, and last year I did not see any after the 11th of 

 the same month. 



