THE [BIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. XXIV. OCTOBER 1894. 



XLII. — Third List of the Birds collected by Mr. Alexander 

 Whyte, F.Z.S., in Nyasaland. By Captain G. E. Shelley, 

 F.Z.S. 



(Plate XII.) 



In tlie present communication I give an account of the 

 contents of several boxes of birclskins which have been for- 

 warded to Mr. Sclater by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., 

 H.M. Commissioner for British Central Africa, during the 

 past few months, and have been submitted to me for exami- 

 nation. As in the case of the previous collections, the speci- 

 mens have all been obtained and prepared by Mr. Alexander 

 Whyte, F.Z.S., Naturalist on Mr. Johnston's Staff, who is 

 usually resident at Zomba, the seat of government. 



My two former lists of the birds of Nyasaland, founded 

 likewise on Mr, Johnston's collections, have been published in 

 ' The Ibis ' for 1893 and 1894. The first of these lists (Ibis, 

 1893, p. 1) contained the names of 134 species, the second 

 (Ibis, 1894, p. 1) added 109, and the present one further 

 adds 44, making together a total of 287 species of which 

 specimens have been sent by Mr. Whyte from Nyasaland. 



All the localities mentioned in these lists are comprised in 

 the Shire Highlands and adjoining district south of Lake 



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