2-1-i Mr. W. L. Selater on Birds collected 



This Seed-eater was found in the Knysna and the South- 

 Eastern, Eastern, and Nortli-Eastern Transvaal. It usually 

 occurs in flocks and frequents cultivated and old lands, 

 feeding largely on various seeds and grain, especially millet. 

 In habit and call it resembles birds of the genus Serinus. 



The soft parts are : — Irides hazel ; bill, upper mandible 

 dark horn-brown, lower fleshy ; legs and toes brown.] 



POLIOSPIZA MENNELLI. 



Poliospiza mennelli E. C. Chubb, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, 



p. r.2. 



P. Coguno, Aug. (1). 



This species was recently described from the Shangani 

 River in Rhodesia. A Seed-eater from Coguno in the 

 Inhambane district is a very good match to the type in 

 the British Museum, and extends the distribution of the 

 species considerably. It is most probable that the oldest 

 name is P. melanochroa Rchw., described from Ukinga in 

 German East Africa, to which Neave has recently referred 

 examples taken by him in N.B. Rhodesia; of this I have not 

 seen the type. Reichenow, however, does not mention the 

 conspicuously dark ear-coverts, and states that the tail 

 measures 70 mm. against 51 for P. mennelli. 



[Mennell's Seed-eater was only found in the Inhambane 

 district, where the male sent was shot feeding in a native 

 garden among numbers of Waxbills. 



The soft parts are : — Irides hazel ; bill fleshy ; legs and 

 toes pale brown.] 



88. Serinus canicollis, 



Z. Sibudeni, Oct., Dec. (11) ; Tv. Wakkerstroom, Mch. 

 (6) ; Woodbush, Nov., Dec. (3). 



The young birds killed at Wakkerstroom are very difl'ercnt 

 from the adults, and I have not found any adequate account 

 of their plumage, nor are there any examples like them in 

 the British Museum collections. 



The following is a short description : — Above dull olive- 

 brown, strcal<ed more finely on the head and rump, more 

 strongly on the back, M'ith duskv ; wings and tail vcrv 



