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Messrs. R. B. & J. D. S. Woodward on 
Criniger flaviventris. (Yellow-breasted Bulbul.) 
Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 203. 
Plentiful. 
Andropadus impqrtunus. (Sombre Bulbul.) 
Op. ext. p. 204. 
Plentiful. 
Muscicapa CjERulescens. (Blue-grey Flycatcher.) 
Op. cit. p. 340. 
Common; it makes a grass nest in holes in trees. 
Platystira peltata. (Green-throated Flycatcher.) 
Op. cit. p. 345. 
This is apparently Layard and Sharpens Green-throated 
Flycatcher [Platystira peltata). We shot two specimens; 
they measured live inches in length, rather larger than the 
size given by Layard and Sharpe. 
This is the first time we have met this bird ; it seems to 
keep to the undergrowth. Its only note appears to be a low 
whistle. The bright scarlet wattle above the eyes is very 
conspicuous. 
Pachyprora molitor. (White-flanked Flycatcher.) 
Op. cit. p. 348. 
Common in this district. 
Pachyprora fratrum Shelley.* 
A Flycatcher new to us, evidently nearly allied to the above. 
* [Capt. Shelley agrees with Messrs. Woodward in referring these 
specimens to a new species, and describes it as follows :— 
“ Pachyprora fratrum, sp. nov. 
“ Most nearly allied to P. mixta Shelley (P. Z. S. 1889, p. 359, pi. xl.), 
and, with the exception of the chestnut crop-band, agrees well with the 
plumage of the adult male of that species. 
“ This species belongs to the group characterized by having the under 
wing-coverts white, with a black patch next to the bend of the wing, 
to which P. capensis and P. ditnorpha should also be referred. It is 
probably an adult female, as it has the crop-band chestnut, and differs 
from the females of all the other known species in having the throat 
above the crop-band entirely pure white, and from the females of the 
