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by its bright yellow forehead, the rest of the upper surface being 
olive-green tinged with yellow. 
Fig. Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1858, pl. i, fig. 2. 
Page 329. PARUS AFER. 
Caconda in Benguela: native name COamitico (Anchieta). Benguela 
(Monteiro). 
Orange River; common (Dr. Bradshaw). 
Common amongst the wooded hillsides of the Magaliesbergen (Ayres). 
Not uncommon in Mashoona Land (Ayres). 
Page 331. Parvs NIGER. 
Common about Rustenberg (Ayres). 
Limpopo River; a tolerably common bird throughout the bush country ; 
equally plentiful on the Umynli River, Mashoona Land, in 
September and October (Ayres). 
Camperdown, near Pietermaritzburg, December (Rezd). 
Page 332. Insert:—ParUs RUFIVENTRIS, Bocage. 
Rufous-bellied Titmouse. 
Obtained by Anchieta at Caconda in Benguela: native name Cazito. 
Easily distinguished from P. afer by its black ear-coyerts and rufous 
belly. Wing, 3°35; tarsus, 0°8. 
Fig. Bocage, Orn. Angola, pl. x, fig. 1. 
Page 332. Insert:—SaLporNis sALvaporII (Bocage). 
Salvadori’s Creeper. 
This remarkable bird, which we believe Dr. Gadow to be perfectly 
right in referring to the genus Salpornis, is the representative in 
Africa of a rare Indian form of Creeper, Salpornis spilonota. 
Senor Anchieta procured the species first at Caconda in Benguela, 
and it was met with by Mr. Jameson’s expedition on the Ganyani 
River in September. 
The following is a translation of Professor Bocage’s original description 
as given by Dr. Gadow (Cat. B. viii, p. 880) :-— 
Above varied with rufous, white, and black; throat dull whitish with 
small black spots; breast and abdomen more rufescent, with scaly 
black margins ; upper tail-coverts, as well as the under tail- 
coverts, whitish banded with black; ear-coverts blackish ; wing- 
coverts and quills black, marked on both margins with rufous- 
white spots; three outer primaries with a slight whitish edging 
on the outer web; tail-feathers black, marked with three inter- 
rupted bands of white, and with a white apical spot; “bill dusky 
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