50 Mr. A. Roberts on Birds In 



Blackcap Bulbuls were very common where oranfres were 

 grown. A nest containing three eggs was found on 22n(l 

 October, but as I was on the march, and, as is so often the 

 case when anything is wanted from the loads, the carrier in 

 charge of my collecting outfit was a long way l^ehind, in 

 the end they got broken. 



Antiireptes hypodilus, Jard. R. 183.3 a. (1 ad., 2 juv. 

 MM., 2 ad. FF.) Resident. 



I. dark brown ; B. & L. black. Leng. 100-lOG & 9G ; 

 W. 50-52 & 48 ; Tl. 30-34 ; C. 14-15 & 13-5. 



The Transvaal Museum collection contains specimens of 

 this species from Beira, Hector Spruit, nnd the Umbellnzi 

 River near Delagoa Bay, and of collaris specimens from 

 Durban, Port St. Johns, and Grahamstown Districts. 



The Northern Collared Sunbird was very common at 

 Mpimba and Ngamwe, resorting to a flowering Loranthus at 

 the former place and ITaUeria lucida at the latter. 



Anthreptes longuemarii nyass.e, Neum. R. 1837. 

 (2 ad., 2 juv. MM., 2 FF.) Resident. 



T. umber ; B. dark brown ; L. black. Leng. 136, 134, & 

 122-130 ; W. 80, 72-73, & G4-69 ; Tl. 55, 50-52, & 41-45 ; 

 C. 16-16-5x16-17 & 15. 



The two FF. have a white mark below the eye. Adult 

 MM. have the ear-coverts grey-brown and juvenile MM. and 

 FF. brownish grey. One of the juvenile males has a trace 

 of metal'ic blue-green on the rump like oriental'iK, but the 

 others do not show it; both of these innnaturo specimens 

 still retain some of the grey feathers, which are mixed with 

 the new metallic ones. The metallic sheen is distiiiclly of a 

 different shade to that of orientalis, of which the collection 

 contains a single adult male colh'cted by the late J. v. 

 0. Marais, proliably in Fast Africa. 



T did not see these Sunbirds at flowers, l)ut always search- 

 ing for insects in the leaves of trees, often in company with 

 other small birds. They were fairly plentiful at Villa Pereira 



