564 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON [May 3, 



New to the Zanzibar district. Compared with Natal example?, 

 these specimens agree perfectly ; and I think Drs. Finsch and 

 Hartlaub's reference {I.e.} should properly be referred to the pre- 

 sent species, altbough Mr. Sharpe (l. c.) includes it as a synonym of 

 B. cinerascens, Guer. I cannot now venture to offer an opinion 

 upon the specific value of B. cinerascens, and can therefore only 

 assign as the range of B. maculosus the whole of South Africa and 

 East Africa as far north as Lamo. 



14. Scops capensis. 



Scops capensis (Smith), Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 241. 



Dar-es-Salaam. 



This species was first collected in East Africa at Kitui, in Ukamba, 

 by Dr. Hildebrandt, whence it ranges throughout Africa south of the 

 equator, and in Western Africa extends as far north as the Gold 

 Coast. North of these limits it is replaced by 8. giu. 



15. Syrnium woodfordi. 



Syrnium woodfordi (Smith), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 108 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 267; Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, 

 p. 251 ; Fischer, torn. cit. p. 273 : id. J. f. O. 1879, pp. 289, 290 ; 

 Fischer & Reichenow, tom. cit. p. 340 ; id. J. f. O. 1880, p. 140 ; 

 Fischer, tom. cit. p. 188. 



Pangani. 



Dr. Fischer procured it at Witu, Muniuni, and Zanzibar. It 

 ^ ranges from Abyssinia throughout the whole of East and South 



Africa. 



16. Caprimulgus mossambicus. 



Cajjrimidgus mossambicus, Peters, J. f. O. 1868, p. 134 ; Sharpe, 

 New ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 88. 



Coprimnlgvs fossei, Finsch & Hartl. V02;. Ostafr. p. 123, pi. i. ; 

 Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, pp. 208, 423 ; CabT J. f. O. 1878, p. 236 ; 

 Fischer & Reichenow, tom. cit. p. 256 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, 

 p. 300 ; Fischer &. Reichenow, tom. cit. p. 344. 



Lamo ; Melinda ; Pangani ; TJsambara hills ; Usambara moun- 

 tains ; Ugogo ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



This is apparently a common bird in the Zanzibar province. It 

 is, I believe, confined to East Africa, where it ranges as far south as 

 Tete, on the Zambesi. 



1 7. COSMETORNIS VEXILLARIUS. 



Cosmetornis vexillaris (Gould), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 

 p. 129. 



Ugogo. 



This species ranges from the Upper White Nile district through- 

 out East Africa to the Zambesi ; is found in Madagascar and in 

 South-west Africa, extending from Damaraland to Malemba, near 

 the mouth of the Congo. 



