594 Mr. W. R. Ogllvle-Grant on 



River and in Jimma in May, also in KafFa in June. It 

 appears to be a rare species and the collector remarks 

 that he never met with it before, I have ah-eady ((. c.) 

 discussed the affinities of this species. 



109. AXTHOTHREPTES ORTENTALIS. 



Anthothrcptes oricntaUs Hartl, ; Shelley, ii. p. 145 (1890). 



Antlirepfes longmnri orientalis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, 

 pp. 244 & 247. 



Tlie Eastern A^iolet-backed Sunbird was met with in tlie 

 district round the northern end o£ Lakes Rudolf and 

 Stefanie in August and at Lakes Bakate and Abbaya in 

 September. 



Family Zosteropid^. 



110. ZoSTEROPS ABYSSINICA. 



Zosterops abyssinica Guerin ; Shelley, ii. p. 192 (1900) ; 

 Ogilvie-Graut, Ibis, 1904., p. 264 ; Reichenow, iii. p. 435 

 (1905). 



The Abyssinian White-breasted White-eye was only met 

 with in the neighbourhood of Lake Zwai in January and 

 at Bourka, Arussi, in February. 



111. Zosterops oMOENsis. 



Zosterops omoensis Neumann, J. f . O. 1906, p. 24-2. 



A series of examples of the Omo White-eye was procured 

 near the Gibbe River, at Gomma, Gofa, Uba, Baku, and the 

 north end of Lake Rudolf. All bear out the characters 

 for distinguishing the species from Z. abyssinica given by 

 Professor Neumann, sucli as the yellowish olive-green back 

 and brighter golden-green throat, while the horu-coloured 

 bill and almost entire absence of yellow on the forehead 

 distinguishes them at a glance from Z. poliogastra. It 

 should be noticed, however, that in freshly moulted 

 examples killed near the Gibbe River and in Gomma in 

 April and May, the sides of the breast and flanks are 

 distinctly washed with isa])elline; whereas in birds from the 

 type-locality, Gofa, Uba, etc. shot in July, there is very little 

 trace of brown on the flanks, I have mentioned this as 

 Professor Neumann notes it as a distinctive character. 



