Mount Chiradzulu, Nyasaland. 179 



8. Criniger flavostriatus. 



Andropadus favosti'iata, Sharpe, B. S. Afr. p. 206. 

 Xenocichla flavistriata, Sliarpe, Cat. vi. p. 100. 

 A single specimen, sex undetermined. 



9. Criniger placidus. 



Xenocichla jjlacida, Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 10. 

 A female of this species was obtained. 



10. Criniger olivaceiceps, sp. n. 



Very similar to C. milanjensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 9, 

 pi. 1. fig. 1, in size, form, and general appearance ; but 

 brighter, and readily distinguished by the entire top of 

 the head from the bill backward being uniform olive-yellow 

 of the same shade as the remainder of the upper parts, and 

 by the absence of any white over the eye ; ear-coverts and 

 eyelids brownish slate-colour, the former with white shaft- 

 stripes ; under surface of the body pale olive, strongly 

 washed with yellow ; under wing-coverts yellow ; inner 

 margins of the quills yellowish buff; bill horny black, legs 

 slaty brown. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3*7, 

 tail 3'8, tarsus 0'95. 



Hah. Mount Chiradzulu. 



It is interesting to find that two mountains of the Shire 

 Highlands are each tenanted by a representative form of 

 Criniger. The present collection contains a single female 

 specimen of this species, which is fortunately in good 

 condition. 



11. MONTICOLA ANGOLENSIS. 



Monticola angolensis, Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1888, pp. 225, 233. 



Monticola brevipes, Sharpe, B. S. Afr. p. 221, pt. (Ben- 

 guela) . 



One female specimen. 



This species chiefly differs from M. brevipes in the some- 

 what irregular black mottling on the back ; a character 

 which, not unnaturally, suggested the idea that this form 

 might be only the young plumage of M. brevipes. The present 

 specimen — as well as five others in the British Museum from 

 Benguela — differs in the same manner from all the more 



