612 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



a. ? ad. 2.iii. 09. 



b. ? ad. 5.iii. 09. 

 c,d. ^ '^ ad. 18.iii.09. 



This A¥hite-eye is confined to Prince's Island^ where it is 

 said to frequent the hilly parts of the interior. 



The specimen mentioned by Shelley (Birds of Africa^ ii. 

 p. 186) as having been obtained in " St. Thomas' Island/' 

 is said by Salvadori to be a new species, which he named 

 Zosterops fem. 



13. *Speirops leucophsea. 



Speirops leucophcea (Hartl.) ; Shelley^ Birds of Africa, ii. 

 1900, p. 203, pi. viii. fig. 2. 



Parinia leucophcBa Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, i. 

 1903, p. 5 ; Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, 1903, p. 49. 



a. S ad. 27.ii.09. 



b-e. S ? ad. 28.ii.09. 



f-g. c?. 4.iii.09. 



h. S' 7.iii.09. 



The above series, obtained by Boyd Alexander, are in 

 freshly moulted plumage. There appears to be no difference 

 between the sexes either in size or in the colour of the 

 plumage. 



Dohrn has the following notes on the nidification of this 

 species : — "The nest, composed of fine grasses and attached 

 to two branches with the silk of moths, is comparatively 

 small, no more than 3"6 inches in diameter and 2*4 inches 

 in depth. The birds hatch in June and ^\x\.j ; the eggs^are 

 two in number and white in /colour." Dohrn remarks tliat 

 the birds live in small flocks in. restricted localities. 



Bpeirops leucophcea was originally described by Hartlaub 

 (Orn. W. Afr. p, 71) from a bird in the Verreaux collection, 

 said to have been obtained in Gaboon by Du Chaillu. 



It seems doubtful if Gaboon is the correct locality from 

 which the original specimen was obtained, and Count 

 Salvadori considers that the bird is probably confined to 

 Prince's Island and is not found in Gaboon. 



Shelley could not discover any further evidence of this 



