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Show 1873.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM MOMBAS. 713 tion of this species. The determination of an African Drymceca now-a-days no easy matter, notwithstanding the excellent descriptions of Dr. von Heuglin and the authors of the " Vogel Ostafrika's." A synoptic table would be a great boon; but the desiderata in the ' Hand-list' are too great to allow of my attempting one at present. 18. NECTARINIA COLLARIS (V.); Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 223. A female specimen of this little Sunbird, already sent from Mombas by Von der Decken. 19. NECTARINIA JARDINEI, Verr.; Finsch u. Haiti. Vog. Ostafr. p. 218. A specimen in moult, but apparently referable to this Sunbird, which has already been noted from Mombas. 20. NECTARINIA GUTTURALIS (L.) ; Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 216. Two adults of this Sunbird, already obtained at Mombas by Von der Decken. 21. HIRUNDO PUELLA, Temm.; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 319. One specimen : new to the locality. 22. HIRUNDO MONTEIRI, Hartl.; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 316. One specimen. Mombas is by far the most northerly point from which this species has yet been obtained. 23. MUSCICAPA GRISOLA (L.) ; Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 300. One specimen. Von der Decken also procured it at Zanzibar. 24. BATIS SENEGALENSIS (L.); Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 163. Oiie specimen with the head black, apparently confirming my suggestion as to this species having a more southern range than B. orientalis. 25. BRADYORNIS SUBALARIS, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. fig. 1.) Above ashy brown, with somewhat of a greyish shade, with faint indications of dark brown centres to the feathers of the crown and back, more particularly the former; wing-coverts ashy brown, with light fulvous-brown edgings ; quills brown, the primaries narrowly margined with rufous brown, the secondaries margined and tipped with whitey brown, the primaries clearly rufescent at base of outer margin ; tail ashy brown, margined and tipped with pale fulvous ; ear-coverts pale brown, with very narrow white shaft-lines ; lores, feathers round the eye, aud cheeks buffy white, shaded with brown ; throat and under surface of body buffy white, the sides of the body, thighs, and under tail coverts, as well as the inner lining of the |