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p. 40 Shoa; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 101 (1896); Elliot, Field 

 Colurnb. Mus. Orn. i. No. 2, p. 41 (1897) Somali; Grant, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 145 Abyssinia. 

 Zosterops flavigula (uec Swains.) Blanf. Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 354 

 (1870). 



Adult. Similar in plumage to Z. capensis, but with the upper parts 

 slightly yellower and with a broad bright yellow forehead. " Bill black ; 

 iris brown; tarsi and feet ashy grey" (Antinori). Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-5, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-7. Shoa, $ , 11. 6. 78 (Antinori). 



Immature. Slightly duller and browner above ; the yellow forehead less 

 strongly marked. Shoa, <? 30. 1. 82 (Antinori). 



Heuglin's White-breasted White-eye ranges over North- 

 east Africa between 5° and 16° N. lat. 



Mr. Elliot informs us that daring his travels in Somali- 

 land he collected three specimens at Bohoigashan but did not 

 meet with it elsewhere, so it is apparently not so abundant in 

 that country as Z. abyssinica. This is the only record of 

 the species having been found further south than Shoa, for I 

 cannot agree with Dr. R. B. Sharpe in referring a bird from 

 Grahamstown, the type of his Z. atmori, to this species 

 (Cat. B. M. ix. p. 169). About half way betweeu Somali and 

 Shoa, Lord Lovat obtained a specimen at Warabill. In Shoa, 

 where Z. abyssinica has not yet been recorded, the present 

 species is abundant and a resident, for Antinori has collected 

 specimens at Let Marefia, January and March ; forest of 

 Fekerie-Ghem, April; Mahal-Uonz, April and August; Kolla 

 di Mantek, August; Dr. Ragazzi at the forest of Fekerie- 

 Ghem, January and May ; Sciotalit and Cure, December. 



A nest found by Antinori was of a deep cup-shape, con- 

 structed entirely of grass, and contained two unspotted pale 

 sky-blue eggs, 0*65 by 0*5 inch. 



In Abyssinia, according to von Heuglin, the species is 

 resident in the eastern and central highlands from 3,000 to 

 12,000 feet, where he met with it at Telent, Semien and 



