On Birds from Inhainhane. Ill 



had no doubt, on meeting with this Flycatcher in BLMii^uet, 

 that it was of the same species as the bird I had uniii- 

 tentionally destroyed. This Flycatcher was also met with in 

 Mindoro. It is a highland form, being met with at nearly 

 7000 feet, bnt occurs also at 3000 feet. 

 Iris, bill, and feet black. 



78. SiPHiA PHiLippiNENsis (Sharpe). (Grant, Ibis, 1894, 

 pp. 408, 507 ; 1895, p. 413; 1896, pp. 112, 461.) 



A lowland species, frequenting thick forest, but occasionally 

 met with in the mountains up to 3000 feet. This species is 

 widely distributed throughout the Philippines. 



Iris, bill, and feet black. 



79. SiPHiA ENGANENsis. (Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 112.) 

 Met with only at Cape Engaiio, where it was decidedly rare. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet pinkish lead- blue. 



[To be continued.] 



VIII. — On a Collection of Birds from Inhamhane, Portuguese 

 East Africa. By W. L. Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S., Director 

 of the South African Museum. Willi Field-notes by 

 H. F. Francis. 



The South African Museum has lately received a small col- 

 lection of birds made at Inhamhane, Portuguese East Africa, 

 by two brothers — ^Messrs. H. F. and W. Francis, and pre- 

 sented by them to the Museum. The only scientific 

 naturalist, so far as I am aware, who has previously visited 

 Inhamhane was the late Dr. Peters, of Berlin, who made 

 it one of his stations, during his stay in Mozambique 

 from 1842 to 1848. The volume relating to the Birds in 

 Peters^s well-known ' Reise nach Mossambique' was never 

 published, but Peters wrote a short paper in the ' Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie ' for 1868 (p. 131), in which six new species 

 from Inhamhane were characterized*. 



The collection of the Messrs. Francis contains examples 



* Dicrurusfvgax, Philayrus pectoralis, Hyphanti)rnis cabanisi, Spermo- 

 phagn niyro-ijnttata, Halcyon orientalis, and Caprhmdyus mossambicus. 



