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and upper tail-coverts is less pronounced. Legs and feet 
whitish brown.” 
In Camaroons, the type, a female, was discovered by Dr. 
Reichenow at Bondongo, and Dr. Preuss obtained an adult 
male at Buea. 
In the Ruwenzori range of mountains Mr. Jackson pro- 
cured a full plumage male, which was made the type of 
C. ocularis, Dr. Sharpe believing the red patch in proximity 
to the eye to be a specific character, but this has been proved 
to be only a distinguishing character of the male in full 
plumage. 
Cryptospiza australis. 
Cryptospiza australis, Shelley, Ibis, 1896, p. 184 Milanji; 1897, p. 529 
Masuku ; 1898, p. 554 Chiradzulu. 
Cryptospiza reichenowi (non Haril.), Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 26; 1894, 
p. 471 Milanji. 
Type. General plumage dark brown, with a very faint olive shade, 
under parts generally slightly paler; tail entirely brownish black; rump, 
upper tail-coverts, and broad edges to the outer webs of the four innermost 
secondaries, bright crimson ; remainder of the back, the ends of the greater 
wing-coverts, and the flanks are slightly washed or mottled with crimson. 
Iris brown; bill black; tarsi and feet dark brown. Total length 4:4 inches, 
culmen 0°45, wing 2:2, tail 1:8, tarsus 0-7. 
In one specimen there are a few minute crimson feathers at the gape. 
The Southern Crimson-wing inhabits British Central 
Africa. 
Mr. Alexander Whyte discovered the type in the Shiré 
highlands, where he met with the species on the Milanji 
Plateau and further north at Kombi on the Masuku range at 
an elevation of 7,000 feet. Other specimens have been pro- 
cured by Sir Alfred Sharpe on Chiradzulu, a high mountain 
between Zomba and Blantire. In the British Museum there 
are five of these specimens collected in June, July and 
