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known to the natives as the " Janja." Prof. Bocage remarks 

 that in all these specimens, with the exception of one from 

 Quillengnes, the rufous shade on the back of the head, throat 

 and breast is well marked. From Damaraland there are three 

 of Andersson's specimens in the British Museum, an adult 

 male from Omaruru and the other two from the Swakop 

 River. 



I cannot trace the range of this species into Namaqualand 

 nor Cape Colony, and from Natal it is known to me by a 

 female specimen obtained by Mr. T. L. Ayres at Durban. This 

 specimen is probably rightly determined, for in Zululand the 

 Messrs. Woodward procured two adult males at Eschowe, 

 where they were nesting in reeds in the middle of December. 

 T. E. Buckley obtained four full plumaged males in Bamang- 

 wato in October and one in the Matabele country, where it 

 has also been met with by Frank Gates at the Tatti River. 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander procured a full plumaged male at the 

 Zambesi, and Mr. Whyte a similar specimen at Mpimbi, in 

 February ; those collected by Sir Alfred Sharpe at Tshiromo, 

 in September, and at Palombe, are in winter plumage, much 

 resembling the females of this species and of H. taJuitali. 

 Along the Mozambique coast Peters obtained the type of 

 H. cahanisl at Inhambane, and specimens have been procured 

 by Serpa Pinto on Ibo Island, by Fischer at Pangani, Usam- 

 bara country, Victoria Nyanza, and at Maliuda, and by Sir 

 John Kirk at Lamu. 



For those naturalists who prefer to recognise H. cabanisi 

 as a subspecies of E. intennedias, the following notes would 

 refer to the latter. The occurrence of the species in Somali- 

 land is known to me by Prince Ruspoli's specimens and one 

 procured by Mr. Pease at Hensa. In Southern Abyssinia 

 specimens have been collected by Lord Lovat and Mr. Pease ; 

 two of these are males in imperfect plumage, shot December 1 



