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tlie natives as " Nkilo," and they further inform us that it 

 was shot while hunting among the buds and young leaves of 

 the forest trees in company with others of the same species. 

 Mr. Guy Marshall obtained the species in November near 

 Salisbury in Mashonaland, and writes : " This little bird is 

 not uncommon, but seems to be more in evidence during the 

 winter months. Three or four individuals are usually found 

 together assiduously investigating low trees and bushes, but 

 they are especially fond of several kinds of very tall flowers, 

 on which they find an abundance of minute insects. I have 

 heard only a faint chirping note uttered." To the north of the 

 Zambesi Mr. Whyte procured a specimen in Karonga in 

 Nyasaland, which is now in the British Museum. 



Dr. Hartlaub records a specimen of this species as forming 

 part of Bmin's collection from Usambiro, 3° S. lat., 38° E. long. 

 This is the most northern known range for the species. Dr. 

 Reichenow, by an oversight, refers this specimen to 2E. 

 capensis (Vog. Deutsch. 0. Afr. p. 214), a species which has, I 

 believe, never been met with anywhere to the north of the 

 Zambesi. 



The habits of this species, no doubt, are very similar to 

 those of JE. capensis, which Stark has described with great 

 accuracy. 



JUgithalus musculus. (PI. 11, fig. 2.) 



iEgithalus musculus, Hartl. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 91 ; id. J. f. 0. 1882, 

 p. 326; id. Abhand. Brern. 1882, p. 198; id. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 347 

 (1887) Laclo; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 29 Lado ; id. B. Afr. I. 

 No. 133 (1896); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 476 Somali; Elliot, Field 

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

 p. 145 Abyssinia. 



Anthoscopus musculus (Hartl.), Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 68 Somali. 



.ZEgithalus capensis (nee Gm.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 71, pt. (1883). 



