the Transvaal Mnseuui from Doror. 57 



Tlie Eastern Black-breasted Bush- Warbler was found to 

 be fairly connnon at Queliniane, Mixixine, and Villa Pereira, 

 and was most commonly found in orange-trees. Only the 

 males were noticed to have black chest-bands, and they were 

 always found either in })airs or small j)arties of four or five 

 actively searching for insects and lestlessly moving- from tree 

 to tree. The call is ii harsh charring note, something like 

 that of the Batis Flycatchers. 



Camaroptera brachyura bororensis, Gun. & ]{bts. 

 (1 M.) August. 



This specimen is the ty])eof the subspecies described in the 

 ' Annals of the Transvaal ]\[useum/ July 1911. It difif'ers from 

 the typical southern race in being much brighter on the back 

 and Avings, paler on the flanks, darker on the breast, less 

 yellowish on the crop, and the tarsus is slightly longer. 



I only met with this bird in the dense scrub on the banks 

 of the river at Ngamwe. Its habits and voice seemed to bo 

 the same as those of the southern race. 



Sylvietta whytei (Shell.) (1 M., 1 F.) Resident. 



I. brownish yellow ; B. max. brown, mand. light horn- 

 brown ; L. yellowish flesh-colour. Leng. 95 & 8<S ; W. h^} 

 k 54 ; Tl. 21 ; Ts. 17 & IG ; C. 12 & 11. 



The female specimen has the sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 eyebrow, and entire under surface rufous, and an indistinct 

 collar on the hind-neck |)ale rufous ; it agrees with the 

 descrii)tion of S. jacksoni, but is, I think, the female of 

 S. ichytei. The male is much paler. 



The Nyassa Crombec was first met with at Ngamwe, and 

 it was not often observed until the latter part of October and 

 early November, when quite a number of nests were found, 

 altliough the birds themselves were not often seen about in 

 their vicinity. Two clutches, of two eggs eacdi, were taken 

 at Matiwe : in one the eggs are speckled witli piirplisli, 

 plate, brown, and red, and measure 17'() X 11*7 and Jd-ti x 11*7; 

 while in the other, of which one of the eggs was subs('«piently 

 broken in transit, the marks are very much largt.T. the single 



