218 PAR1S0MA PLUMBEUM. 



a. P. oriental/is. 



Adult Male. Like P. plumbeum but slightly darker above and whiter 

 beneath ; under tail-coverts white with an extremely slight partial buff 

 shade. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 2-6, tail 2-5, tarsus 07. 

 3 , 11. 3. 92, Kibwezi (Jackson). 



Adult Female. Like the male, only with the under tail-coverts entirely 

 pure white. Total length 53 inches, culmen 045, wing 2-5, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0-7. ? , 11. 3. 92, Kibwezi (Jackson). 



b. P. catolcucum. 



Type. Very similar to P. plumbeum (Hartl.) but with the upper parts 

 paler and the under parts pure white, only washed with grey on the flanks ; 

 also smaller. Wing 2-5 inches (Reichenow). 



The Plumbeous Hill Tit ranges southward from the Gambia, 

 Gazal river, and Equatorial Bast Africa into Benguela and 

 Natal. 



In the British Museum there are specimens from the 

 Gambia and Casamanse. From the latter place the type was 

 procured. In Liberia, Mr. Buttikofer obtained two specimens 

 in the bush near Monrovia and Oldfield, and Dr. Reichenow 

 records specimens from Misahohe and Kratji in Togoland. 



I do not find any mention of the species from the Niger, 

 nor from Camaroons, but in Gaboon Du Chaillu collected the 

 types of P. melanurum at the Camma river ; these no doubt 

 belong to the present species, for there is a specimen from 

 Landana in the British Museum, and other specimens of 

 P. plumbeum have been collected by Bohndorff on the Congo, 

 at Manyango and Leopoldsville, and by Anchieta in Benguela, 

 at Quissange and Quindnmbo, which is the furthest southern 

 known range for the species in Western Africa, although it has 

 been met with as far south as Durban, in Natal. 



The only specimen known to me from Natal is one that was 

 shot by Captain Reid in the thick bush between Durban and 

 the Umgani river, December 26. Mr. T. E. Buckley, during 



