Mr. A. Haagner — Mkcellaneous Notes. 80 



d. Large wlxite spot behind the eye ; many of the breast- 



feathers with white tips ; flanks, under tail-coverts, 

 and thighs mixed with white. (Ermelo district.) 



e. White markings on face ; thighs &c. mixed with 



white ; middle of lower breast also white. (Pre- 

 toria district.) 



/. White behind the eye ; white of underparts continued 

 up to the middle of the upper breast. (Lydenburg.) 



g. Whole face white, with small scattered spots of dark 

 brown ; white of underparts extended up to lower 

 throat. (N.W. Rhodesia.) 



Several specimens have the whole abdomen white. The 

 shoulder-spot is small in some, larger in others, and mixed 

 with black in a few examples. The males are more inclined 

 to pied plumage than the females, have larger wattles, and 

 are of much larger size. A gosling in the down is blackish 

 above shaded with yellow, a few greenish-black feathers 

 appearing on the sides of the body and on the mantle, the 

 latter being edged with reddish brown, the former with 

 white. Breast, face, and chin yellowish ; remainder of the 

 underparts dark grey washed with yellow. 



Culmen 34 mm. ; tarsus 23. 



COLIUSPASSER ALBONOTATUS, Cassin. 



So far as I know, the female of this species is still unde- 

 scribed. The Museum contains a lai-ge series of this bird 

 from Weenen, Natal, collected by Mr. E. P. B. Arnold. 



Adult female. — Above yellowish brown, the centres of the 

 feathers being blackish brown, giving to the entire upper 

 surface a streaked appearance, similar to that of Pijromelana 

 orix ? . Least wing-coverts tipped with yellow, giving a 

 smudgy yellow patch on the shoulder ; long median coverts 

 and greater coverts edged with dirty white, forming an ill- 

 defined white speculum ; secondaries also edged with white 

 on the outer web for the terminal half, basal half with rusty 

 olive ; bend and edges of wing pale yellow ; eyebrows pale 

 yellowish ; cheeks and throat washed with pale orange- 

 yellow ; breast and flanks tawny-brown, centre of breast 



