240 PARUS AFER. 



colouring between that species and P. rovumce. Total length 6-2 inches, 

 culmen 045, wing 3-3, tail 2-8, tarsus 08. Mashona, 2, 16. 8. 9S (Guy 

 Marshall). 



Type of P. rovumce. Similar in general colouring to P. pallidiventris, 

 but differs in the paler buffy white breast and in being slightly smaller. 

 Total length 5'3 inches, culmen 04, wing 305, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-75. 



The Buff-breasted Tit ranges over East Africa from 

 Maslionalaud into the Usegua country. 



The most southern known locality for this Tit is Masliona- 

 laud ; here Mr. Guy Marshall met with the species, and has 

 kindly forwarded to me a fine specimen for the British Museum, 

 labelled " 3 , 16. 8. 98, Glen Lome, 4,500 feet, Salisbury 

 district," and writes : " This species is very fond of searching 

 the young leaves of the mimosa trees, which are generally 

 teeming with phytophagous coleoptera. At the time the 

 example was shot Anaplectes rubriceps and the Pyromelanse 

 had not donned their wedding garments." 



The Mashona bird agrees perfectly with three specimens 

 from the Shire district collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte at 

 Fort Lister, which stands on the north slope of the Milanji 

 mountains, twelve miles due south of Lake Shirwa. 



To this species Dr. Reichenow refers the specimens 

 collected by Dr. Stuhlmann at Quilimane and in the Usegua 

 country at Pungue and Mesere. 



The type of the species was discovered by Bohm at Kakoma. 



My friend the late Mr. Joseph Thomson gave me the type 

 of P. rovumse, which he procured during his exploration of the 

 Rovuma river in about 10° S. lat. This specimen differs quite 

 as much from P. pallidiventris, as P. pallidiventris does from 

 P. masukuensis, and rather more than the latter does from 

 P. rufiventris. 



Parus afer. 



Paras afer, 6m. Sharpe in Oates' Matabele, p. 311 (1881) Samoukwe B. s ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 257 Umvuli B. s ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. 



