XANTHOPHILUS XAXTHOPS 4S5 



from tlie Quanza, and others collected by Anchieta at Caconda 

 and Quiadambo, where they are known to the natives as the 

 "Tialala" at the former place, and as the " Janja " at the 

 latter. Prof. Bocage observes that the specimen from the 

 Quanza is remarkable by the chestnut shade on the throat, 

 apparently agreeing in this respect with the types of Hj/plinn- 

 tornis aurantiigula, Cab., and H. camhurni, Sharpe. 



To the south of the Zambesi, T. B. Buckley procured a 

 specimen in Swaziland, Mr. Cavendish one at Mapicuti in 

 the Beira district, and Jameson the type of R. jamesoni, 

 Sharpe, at the Umfuli River ; these, as "well as three of 

 Bradshaw's specimens from the Makalaka country, are in the 

 British Museum. Mr. Guy Marshall remarks : " This fine 

 species is by no means common. I have seen it on the 

 Hanyani and Umfuli Rivers, and it occurs sparingly along the 

 streams near Salisbur3^" 



Mr. Boyd Alexander, during his expedition up the Zambesi, 

 " first met with the species at Chicowa, frequenting the shady 

 portions of the river's bank in pairs, and in company with 

 Bulbuls {Pijcnonotus layardi). As we journeyed further west 

 they became more plentiful, and at the end of November 

 building had commenced. The tunnelled nests were hung 

 from pendent branches of thick bushes near running water, 

 and were never in colonies like those of other Weavers, but 

 each pair of birds had their own particular thicket. The song 

 of the male is a loud running chatter, kept up without inter- 

 mission for some seconds. The plumage of the immature male 

 is similar to that of the adult female." 



The species is generally distributed over Nyasaland, speci- 

 mens having occurred in eight separate collections, from 

 Zomba to the Tanganyika plateau, as well as at five inter- 

 vening places. To the east of Lake Tanganyika Bohm found 

 the species abundant, but shy, generally in pairs frequenting 



