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2. Abdominal region light grey, only faintly tinged with yellowish ; 
under tail-coverts not yellowish — Port Alfred. 
3. Like 2, but with a stronger wash of yellowish — Grahamstown, 
Lusikisiki, and Matatiele. 
4. Abdominal region grey, with a very strong wash of yellowish which 
extends over the under tail-coverts as well — Port St. Johns. 
5. Abdominal region dark grey, with a very slight wash of yellowish 
— Eastern Transvaal. 
No doubt these forms will be found to merge into each other, having 
regard to the fact that there is some difficulty in placing specimens when 
they are taken in situations not far apart, as in the case of Port Alfred 
and Grahamstown. 
Anthoscopus caroli, Sharpe. 
In the eighteenth volume of Wytsman’s “ Genera Avium,” Hellmayr 
has pointed out that specimens of A. caroli from the eastern parts of South 
Africa are subspecifically distinct from those found in the western parts. 
Those from the Transvaal and Southern Ehodesia he has placed as 
A. robertsi, the type of which came from Boror, north of the Zambezi, 
apparently under the impression that the north and south of Zambezi 
forms were identical. A. robertsi is creamy white (it should rather have 
been described as creamy yellow) on the throat and breast, and “ above 
pale grey-brown, with a distinct yellow-olivaceous tinge.” In specimens 
from the eastern Transvaal, the cream coloured parts are much paler 
(white, in fact, on the throat), and the upper surface of the body and head 
is almost devoid of the “ yellow olivaceous tinge.” This distinct sub- 
species from south of the Zambezi I am therefore naming 
Anthoscopus caroli hellmayri, subsp. nov., 
after the author to whom is due the credit of drawing attention to the 
difference between the eastern and western forms of the species. 
This subspecies is represented in the collection by two specimens from 
Mapagone and one from Klein Letaba, in the north-eastern Transvaal and 
two from the Bubye River in south-eastern Rhodesia. The type (a <^) is 
from Mapagone and was taken by Mr. F. 0. Noome on 19th September, 
1913 (T.M. No. 10478). 
Description of A. c. hellmayri : Upper parts, except the forehead, 
light greyish olive, the rump becoming more yellowish. Wings and tail 
browner than the back. Forehead and sides of the face white with a tinge 
of cream colour ; chin and throat clearer white, merging gradually into 
pale ochraceous buff on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Lender 
wing-coverts white. Wing 52, tail 24, tarsus 12, culmen 9 mm. 
The two specimens from the Bubye River are slightly darker 
ochraceous buff than the three from Transvaal. 
While writing of A. caroli , I may mention that Mr. Noome procured 
two specimens of A . minutus smithi as well as the two of A . caroli hellmayri 
at Mapagone. 
