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In Cape Colony Levaillant discovered the type and records 

 the species as frequenting the mimosas in small flocks, inces- 

 santly on the move in search of their insect food. Mr. Layard 

 mentions the species from Malmesbury, Swellendam, Coles- 

 berg and Kuruman, and " saw it in great abundance in the 

 Karroo, as far as Nel's Poort ; also on New Year's and Great 

 Fish rivers." Captain Trevelyan has procured the species at 

 Kingwilliamstosvn. In the British Museum there are speci- 

 mens from the Orange river, Zululand, and as far north as 

 Matabeleland. 



Mr. T. B. Buckley writes : " A very common species from 

 Natal to Matabeleland. It creeps and hops about the bushes, 

 never flying far at a time." Messrs. Butler, Feilden and Beid 

 did not meet with it in Natal, but were given a specimen 

 at Ladysmith. 



Mr. T. Ayres writes : " This species is not uncommon 

 about Bustenburg," and he found it in the Mariqua district and 

 along the Limpopo creeping about the low bushes and amongst 

 the grass at the roots of trees in search of insects, and during 

 his expedition with the late Mr. Jameson obtained a specimen 

 at Maugwato, and records the species as : " Now and again to 

 be seen in Matabeleland, but decidedly more plentiful to the 

 south of that country." 



The furthest known northern range for the species on this 

 side of the continent is Tati, where the late Mr. Frank Oates 

 obtained a specimen which is now in the British Museum. 



Parisoma layardi. 



Parisoina layardi, Hartl. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. p. 270 (1879) ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 334, 836 (1884) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 135 (1896). 



Sylvia— (?) Chapman, Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 397 (1868). 



