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it is known to the natives as the ‘“‘ Mkanje,” and it must 
be plentiful in this country, as specimens have been collected 
at Zomba, Mtondwe, Mkukula, Kotakota, Namiwawa and 
Ulumba. The specimens procured in November, January 
and April are in the bright breeding plumage, and in 
a large series obtained by Mr. Alexander Whyte at Zomba, 
between June and November, all are in the brown winter 
dress. From the above records it is evident that the species 
breeds in its southern range from November to April, and in 
the more northern latitudes from May till August. 
In the Portuguese territory, at Quilimane, the species is 
called by the natives ‘‘ Mribba,” according to Dr. Stuhlmann. 
He also procured specimens at Zanzibar and in the Usegua 
country, where it is known to the natives as the ‘ Baniani” 
and ‘“ Mnana.” Serpo Pinto records it from Ibo Island off 
the Mosambique Coast in 12° 30’ S. lat. 
This species is abundant and very generally distributed 
over German Hast Africa, where Sir John Kirk, Boéhm, 
Fischer and Emin have collected specimens at many places. 
At Melinda, Fischer found it beginning to breed in May, 
and this is the most eastern locality known to me for the 
species. It has not been recorded from Somaliland, and the 
Species is apparently rare in British Hast Africa, for Mr. 
Jackson procured only a single pair at Elgeyu in August, 
a male in breeding plumage at Dindi, in Kavirondo, July 16, 
1890, and one at Kabindo. Sir Harry Johnston obtained 
a specimen at Nandi, and Dr. Ansorge met with the species 
in Usogo. From further west, in Central Africa, Emin pro- 
cured specimens at Tingasi and Kubbi, five of which are 
now in the British Museum, along with two from Abyssinia, 
in which latter country were procured the types of Orya 
petiti, Huplectes craspedopterus and H. pyrrhozona. According 
to Heuglin they breed in August and September in the high 
