354 ZOOLOGY. 



113. N. pulchella, Vieill. 



Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 107.— Ferr. et Gal. No. 173.— Heugl. Om. 

 N. 0. Afr. p. 223. 



Common on the Anseba, especially in the thickets near 

 the river, usually upon high acacia trees, but not seen 

 anywhere else. Females were very rarely noticed. This 

 bird has a fine song. 



Specimens of N. pulchella without the elongated tail- 

 feathers are often mistaken for N. habessinica. They 

 may be distinguished by being bronzed green and not 

 purple on the crown of the head, and by the shorter biU. 



Family MELIPHAGID.^. 



114. Zostefops poliogastra, Heugl. 



Von Heuglin, Ibis, 1861, p. 357, pi. xiii ; et Om. N. 0. Afr. p. 412. 

 Hartlaub, Joum. of Omith. 1865, p. 9. 



I obtained a solitary female specimen of a Zosterops 

 at Dongolo, which I can only refer to this species. It 

 appears to differ in having the forehead bright yellow; in 

 the black of the lores extending slightly under the eye ; 

 the yellow supercilium, which in the figure in the " Ibis " 

 is represented as much produced behind, scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable beyond the middle of the eye ; the upper 

 tail coverts are not yellow but green, the same colour as 

 the back ; and the general colouring cannot be correctly 

 termed " virescenti-Jlava." It is green with an olivaceous 

 tinge. The dimensions too are identical. Length 5 in., 

 bUl from front 0'4, wing 2'5, tail I'S, tarsus 07. 

 If new, this may be called Z. flavigula. 



