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could, and left the little ones safe inside ; but passing the place 

 in about a week, I again climbed the tree and found the nest 

 cold and deserted." To the north of the Vaal river he calls 

 the species common in the Rustenburg district, and while in 

 company with the late Mr. Jameson collected specimens near 

 the Limpopo in May, and found the species tolerably common 

 throughout the bushy country and equally plentiful in 

 Mashonaland in September and October. In the latter 

 month Mr. T. E. Buckley met with it in Bumaugwato, and 

 his companion, my friend, the late Mr. Frank Oates, collected 

 specimens in Matabele, at Tati, and the Ramaqueban river. 



Dr. Bradshaw procured several specimens in the country 

 between the Orange river and the Zambesi, and along the 

 course of the latter river specimens have been procured by 

 Sir John Kirk at Tete, and by Mr. Boyd Alexander at the 

 Kafue river, and the latter naturalist writes : " Locally distri- 

 buted, and found either in pairs or in small parties threading 

 their way through the undergrowth. The plumage of the males 

 shot in August was very fresh, the feathers of the wings, under 

 tail-coverts and tail being conspicuously edged with white, 

 while in those obtained near the Kafue river in January the 

 white edgings, especially on the primaries, under tail-coverts, 

 and tail had almost disappeared." 



The most northern range known to me for this species is 

 Liwonde in Nyasaland, where Mr. Alfred Sharpe has recently 

 procured a pair in full plumage. 



Parus fuelleborni. 



Parus fiilleborni, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 5 Ondis. 



Type. Very similar to P. niger, but with the under parts slaty grey, 

 darker on the throat and paler on the abdomen ; scapulars tipped with 



