Birds front Southern Abyssinia. 573 



Anomalospiza imberbis (Cab.). 



Great confusion lias taken place with regard to this species. 

 In the 'Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum/ xii. 

 p. 355, Sharpe gave a list of seven specimens^ uhich he 

 referred to Serinus imberbis Cal)anis, hut they have nothing 

 to do with that species and are partl}^ referable to S. marshaUi 

 Shelley and partly to S. slieJleyi Neumann, if the latter is 

 kept distinct from S. sharpei Neumann. Shelley (Birds of 

 Africa, iii. p. 203) made much the same mistake^ his Serinus 

 imberbis being synonymous with S. sharpei. The species 

 of the genus Anomalospiza closely resemble in general 

 appearance those of Serinus, but possess a very small bastard 

 primary^ as in Pyromelana flammiceps and other species of 

 Weavers ; the shape o£ the culmen is also very remarkable, 

 and this character alone should serve to distinguish at a 

 glance the members of the genus Ayiomalospiza. Though 

 widely distributed, A. imberbis (Cab.) is probably a rare bird, 

 and is very seldom procured. The only example in the 

 British Museum^ in spite of what has been written to the 

 contrary, is a male from Sierra Leone obtained by INIr. Robin 

 Kemp. This specimen appears to agree entirely with the 

 description and figure of the type-specimen from Zanzibar 

 \_cf. Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika, iii. pt. i. p. 30, 

 pi. ix (18G9)]: also with the type-specimens of Crithagra 

 rendalli Tristram from Barbertou. 



Zaphiro was fortunate enough to obtain an adult male 

 and female of a second species of this remarkable genus, 

 w hich has been named : — 



56. Anomalospiza macmillaxi. 



Anomalospiza macmillani Banuerman, Bull. J5. O. C. xxix. 

 p. 37(1911). 



The adult male of this remarkable bird differs from the 

 male of A. imberbis Cab., in having the general colour of the 

 plumage duller ; the crown of a more orange-yellow ; the 

 back less strongly streaked Avith black ; and the chesty 

 breast, sides, and flanks washed with olive, giving these 



