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coverts yellowish green ; wings and tail brown, washed, 

 especially along the edges of the feathers, with yellowish 

 green ; sides of head leaden grey, slightly mottled with 

 white ; chin and throat white ; breast more ashy white, 

 streaked with sulphur-yellow side-margins to the feathers ; 

 under tail-coverts very pale ashy brown washed with sulphur- 

 yellow ; under surface of wings dark brown, with nearly all 

 the coverts and broad inner edges to the quills pale sulphur- 

 yellow. Total length 5"6 inches, culmen 055, wing 2*7, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 0"75. Bill dusky, with the greater portion 

 and the keel of the lower mandible white. 



The nearest ally to this apparently new species — as 

 Capt. Shelley, who has examined the specimen, kindly points 

 out to me — is X. flavostriata (Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 vi, p. 100), which, however, is one-third larger and has a 

 brown back. Other allied forms are, perhaps, Andropadus 

 marchei Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 100 (1879), and 

 Xenocichla tenuirostris Fischer & Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, 

 p. 262. This species is the smallest of the genus. Dr. 

 Keichenow of Berlin, to whom the specimen has been 

 sent by my father for comparison, likewise agrees that it is 

 undescribed. 



4. Lagonosticta niveo-guttata (Peters) : Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 xiii. p. 274. 



" Male : iris blackish blue, round the eyelids a narrow 

 line of bare skin of turquoise-colour. North of the port of 

 Inhambane, 1st October, 1898. This bird is not uncommon; 

 it frequents thick undergrowth, and apparently finds its 

 food among the leaves on the ground, as it is generally seen 

 scratching about there.^^ — H. F. F. 



This is one of the species originally discovered by Peters 

 in Mozambique. In the list of them given in my former 

 paper (above, p. Ill) the name was misprinted " nigro- 

 guttataj' 



5. Sycobrotus stictifrons Fiscb. & Reichen. : Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. xiii. p. 424. 



'' Male : iris dull wine-colour. North of Inhambane. 



