collected in N^o7'th Nyasaland. 525 



a. A narrow metallic blue collar ; upper tail-coverts blue. 

 a' . Abdomen ashy stone-colour. 



a'. Larger : wing 2 5 inches ; scarlet pectoral band 

 slightly paler and broader, 

 a'. Culmeu 1-1 ; metallic pectoral band more 



violet C. afer. 



b^. Culmen 0'6o ; metallic pectoral band bluer . C. ludovicensis. 

 i'. Smaller ; wing 2*25 ; scarlet pectoral band 



slightly darker and narrower. Culmen 0'9 . C. chalybeus. 

 v. Abdomen browner and shaded with olive-yellow. 

 c'^. Abdomen paler and yellower ; metallic pec- 

 toral band and upper tail-coverts with a 

 greenish shade. Culmen 0-75, wing 2'1 . . . . C. medioct-is. 

 d^. Abdomen darker ; metallic pectoral band and 

 upper tail-coverts violet-blue. 

 c^. Larger : culmen 0-85, wing 2'25 ; back 



greener C. pi'eussi. 



d^. Smaller : culmen 0'65, wing 2'0o ; back 



bluer C. reichenoici. 



b. No metallic blue collar ; upper tail-coverts green, 



like the back. Culmen 0-6o, wing not more than 



2 inches C. chloropygius. 



7 . Chalcomitra gutturalis. 



Chalcomitra gutturalis (Linn.), Shelley, B. Afr. i. p. 4, 

 no. 49; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 17, 1894, p. 14. 



Karonga, Kombi, and Fort Hill, July. Two full-plumaged 

 males, a female, and an immature bird. 



8. ZOSTEROPS ANDERSSONI. 



Zosterops anderssoni, Shelley; id. B. Afr. i. p. 7, no. 88; 

 id. Ibis, 1896, p. 180. 



Nyika Plateau, June. One adult female, similar to the 

 male previously recorded from Nyasaland. 



a. Throat and under surface of body uniform yellow. 



Wing 2-35 inches Z. anderssoni. 



b. Throat and under surface of body yellow, passing 



into green on the flanks. Wing 2-3 inches; 



white ring round the eye narrow Z. virens. 



9. Zosterops virens. 



Zosterops virens, Bp. ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. p. 7, no. 91 ; 

 Sharpe, B. S. Afr. pp. 325, 834 ; Gadow, Cat. ix. p. 182. 

 Mayawa village on the Nyika Mountain, 6000 feet, June. 



