366 Capt. G. E. Shelley on Birds 



the natives as '' Kinjong:o," a name I have also met with on 

 one of his labels attached to a specimen of Cinnyris oustaleti. 



2. Parus insignis. 

 Ikawa. Four adults. 



This bird appears to be common in Nyasaland and to 

 entirely replace P. niger, so I presume that the P. niger 

 Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 213, refers to this species. 

 As this form was not generally well known, T gave a key to it 

 and its near allies in a former article (Ibis, 1897, p. 526). 

 Unfortunately the key was wrong as regards this species, for 

 it should have been : b'. Larger ; tail with a narrow white 

 margin on each side ... P. insignis. Apparently the range 

 of this Tit is from the Cunene and Zambesi rivers north- 

 ward into Angola on the west and the Usagua country on 

 the east, and it is replaced south of the Cunene and Zambesi 

 rivers by P. niger, while its nearest ally, P. leucopterus , ranges 

 northward from Angola to Senegambia and through the 

 Congo district, Uganda, Upper Nile, and Shoa into Abyssinia. 

 P. xantliostomus is only known to me by three specimens : 

 one from Grahamstown, a second obtained by Bradshaw 

 south of the Zambesi, and a third from Mpimbe, in the 

 Upper Shire district. 



3. Salpornis salvadorii. 



Fort Hill and Ikawa. Four adults. 



The genus Salpornis is represented by only two closely- 

 allied species, the Indian S. spilonotus and the African bird. 



Anchieta procured the type of S. salvadorii and several 

 other specimens at Caconda in Benguela, and in the same 

 neighbovirhood Mr. Van der Kellen obtained a specimen on 

 the Kasinga river. Messrs. Jameson and T. Ayres, during 

 their journey through Mashonaland, met with it at the 

 Ganyani river in September; and Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall 

 secured a specimen in October near Salisbury, where it is 

 known to the natives as " Mangwidso.'^ In Nyasaland speci- 

 mens have been collected at Zomba in August, at Fort Hill 

 and Ikawa. The species is not recorded from German East 

 Africa, but has been obtained by Mr. F. J. Jackson at Sav6, 

 on Mount Elgon, in February, at an elevation of 6000 feet. 



