On Birds from Mount Chiradzulu, Nyasaland. 177 



XV. — On a Collection of Birds froin Mount Chiradzulu, in 

 the Shire Highlands, Nyasaland. By Capt. G. E. Shelley, 

 r.Z.S. With prefatory Remarks by P. L. Sclater. 



(Plate IV.) 



[Mount Chiradzulu is described iu Capt. Sclater's '' Routes 

 and Districts in Southern Nyasaland " (Geogr. Journ, 1893, 

 p. 403) as '^a striking mountain, rising to a level ridge about 

 two miles long, which runs north and south to an elevation 

 of nearly 5000 feet. The upper slopes are well forested, and 

 Avatei'ed by numerous small streams." Chiradzulu will be 

 found marked in Capt. Sclater's map, attached to that paper, 

 a little to the right of the main route between Blantyre and 

 Zomba. 



Amongst the collections lately received from Sir H. H. 

 Johnston, K.C.B., H.B.M. Commissioner, is a small series of 

 birds from this mountain, obtained by Mr, Alexander Why te, 

 who visited it in July last. It contains about 40 specimens, 

 which, as kindly determined by Capt. Shelley, are referable 

 to 27 species. Of these three are new to science ; and one 

 of them is a very distinct and beautiful Oriole with a bright 

 green head ; another is a closely allied representative of a 

 species lately described from the neighbouring mountain 

 Milanji; while the third is a southern form of the rare genus 

 Cryptospiza, hitherto known only from the mountains of 

 Camaroons and Shoa. 



Along with this Chiradzulu collection Sir H. H. Johnston 

 sends a fine specimen of Gypohierax ungolensis in its white 

 adult plumage from Lake Nyasa, and a Bustard {Otis mela- 

 nogaster) from the plains of Zomba. Neither of these birds, 

 the sender informs me, was previously known to occur iu 

 these respective localities. — P. L. S.] 



1. AccrPITER MINULLUS. 



Accipiter minullus (Daud.); Sharpe, B. S. Afr. pp. 23, 

 796; id. Cat. i. p. 140; Sclat. Ibis, 1864, p. 306. 

 A single female of this tiny Sparrow-Hawk. 



