178 
Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
(Transvaal Museum.) 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tarsus. Culmen. 
cJ Knysna (Rex) 
Nov. 
166 
205 
36 -5 
34-5 
$ „ 1; 
Nov. 
178 
232 
38 
33 
cJ Grahamstown (Ivy) 
Dec. 
169 
208 
37 
34 -5 
<5 55 55 
Mar. 
171 
195 
36 
33 -5 
? „ „ 
Feb. 
182 
212 
38 
35 
cJ Red Hill (Arnold) 
Nov. 
163 
201 
36-5 
31 
<$ >> ff 
Oct. 
170 
205 
37 -5 
32 
(? 55 55 
Apr. 
173 
205 
36 
29 
cJ Pietermaritzburg (Natal Museum) 
? 
166 
200 
40 
34 
? (? cJ) Barberton (Dreyer) 
Jan. 
164 
210 
40 
2 
(J Hector Spruit (Streeter) 
Feb. 
168 
204 
39 
31 
S 5 5 5 5 5 5 
Feb. 
175 
203 
40 
33 
<J Beira (Sheppard) 
June 
160 
185 
37 -5 
31 
$ „ „ 
June 
165 
195 
36 
31 
S 5 5 5 5 
Jan. 
165 
216 
37 
31 -5 
$ Woodbush (Noome) 
Dec. 
163 
205 
35 
32 
3 55 55 
Dec. 
166 
216 
38 *5 
34 
<J Rustenburg ,, 
Nov. 
166 
212 
37 
30 
cJ Pretoria District (Littledale) 
May 
167 
205 
35 
31 
$ „ „ (Roberts) 
Jan. 
163 
196 
38 
30 -5 
Potchefstroom (F. D. Ayres) 
Jan. 
163 
208 
37 
32 -5 
? (?) “Transvaal” 
2 
182 
222 
38 
32 
Me?) „ 
2 
165 
209 
38 
31 -5 
The difference in size between the 
sexes 
does not 
seem 
to have 
been 
previously noticed, and it is possible that collectors when shooting a pair 
may have sexed them according to size, so that errors may have so 
occurred. Disregarding such a possibility and the sex signs in brackets 
which I have inserted when in doubt, it is still apparent that the majority 
of the specimens are sexed as males and the few that are sexed as females 
are the largest in the series. Taking the specimens as they stand, it will 
be seen that those from the same localities are fairly consistent in the 
length of the culmen, though in different localities the average length 
varies. If then we compare the Kaffrarian specimens of C. burchdli and 
; pymi it will be seen that the latter has a considerably longer culmen. 
In conclusion, I may mention that though there is a possibility of 
C. pymi being found in parts of South Africa other than Kaffraria ; but 
there is nothing to show in the skins I have examined that this is the case, 
and for the present I am inclined to the belief that it is an isolated species. 
Chlorophoneus olivaceus taylori, subsp. nov. 
In examining the specimens of C. olivaceus recorded by C. H. Taylor 
from Indhlovudwalile, eastern Transvaal ( vide “ Journal of the South African 
Ornithologists’ Union,” Yol. Ill, p. 20), which are now in the collection of 
the Transvaal Museum, I find that the adult male differs from an adult 
male from the Dargle District, Natal, in having the feathers at the base 
of the bill white (but yellow on the lores), a narrow whitish line below 
