Young Anomalospiza being fed by Prinia Jiavicans (see pp. 260-261 \ 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By Austin Roberts. 
Classification of African Birds. 
As adopted by Mr. C. H. B. Grant in a series of papers published 
in the Ibis , 1915. 
In the course of a series of papers dealing with a collection of birds made 
by Captain G. P. Cosens in British East Africa and Uganda (Ibis, 1915), 
Mr. C. H. B. Grant has in many cases reviewed the races of species with 
which the collection is concerned. Since Grant has been largely identified 
with the study of South African species, which he collected during the 
Rudd Expedition, and as his present work has been carried out with the 
aid of the enormous series of skins in the National Collection in the British 
Museum, his expressions of opinion are likely to carry considerable weight. 
Nevertheless, I am sure by the facts in regard to the species with which 
I am here concerned, that his identification has not been conducted with 
that care and discrimination which should be correlated with his dogmatic- 
assertions in regard to some subspecies and even species. Grant’s work 
is characterized by many good features for which African ornithologists 
should be grateful, amongst which may be mentioned the first acknowledg- 
ment as well as careful scrutiny, from workers in the British Museum, of 
the older literature prior to 1766 in which African ornithology has been dealt 
with, and also the acceptance of the modern rides of nomenclature ; these 
are particularly good features, as the inclination of many ornithologists 
