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Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 
This Seed-eater was found in the Knysna and the South- 
Eastern, Eastern, and North-Eastern Transvaal. It usually 
occurs in flocks and frequents cultivated and old lands, 
feeding largely on various seeds and grain, especially millet. 
In habit and call it resembles birds of the genus Serinus . 
The soft parts are :—Irides hazel; bill, upper mandible 
dark horn-brown, lower fleshy ; legs and toes brown.] 
POLIOSPIZA MENNELLI. 
Poliospiza mennelli E. C. Chubb, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, 
p. 62. 
P. Coguno, Aug. (1). 
This species was recently described from the Shangani 
Kiver in Rhodesia. A Seed-eater from Coguno in the 
Inhambane district is a very good match to the type in 
the British Museum, and extends the distribution of the 
species considerably. It is most probable that the oldest 
name is P. melanockroa Rchw., described from Ukinga in 
German East Africa, to which Neave has recently referred 
examples taken by him in N.E. Rhodesia; of this I have not 
seen the type. Reichenow, however, does not mention the 
conspicuously dark ear-coverts, and states that the tail 
measures 70 mm. against 51 for P. mennelli . 
[Mennelks Seed-eater was only found in the Inhambane 
district, where the male sent was shot feeding in a native 
garden among numbers of Waxbills. 
The soft parts are:—Irides hazel; bill fleshy; legs and 
toes pale brown.] 
88. Serinus canicollis. 
Sibudeni, Oct., Dec. (11) ; Tv. Wakkerstroom, Mch. 
(6) ; Woodbush, Nov., Dec. (3). 
The young birds killed at Wakkerstroom are very different 
from the adults, and I have not found any adequate account 
of their plumage, nor are there any examples like them in 
the British Museum collections. 
The following is a short description :—Above dull olive- 
browm, streaked more finely on the head and rump, more 
strongly on the back, with dusky ; wings and tail very 
