282 On Birds from the vicinity of Zomba. 



I. List of the Species represented in the Collection, with 

 References to Shelley's ' Birds of Africa^ 



TI. Remarks on Species new to the Nyassan Avifauna. 



1. Coracias spatulata vel weigalli. 



The specimen is in immature plumage^ and has not 

 assumed the elongated tail-feathers so characteristic of the 

 adults. On comparing it with an immature specimen of 

 C. spatulata in the British Museum^ it differs only in having 

 scarcely any trace of green on the throat. C. spatulata 

 ranges from Benguela into the Makalaka and Ugogo 

 countries^ and C. weigalli is known by two specimens, 



* Gallinago media, Shelley, op. cit. p. 192. 



