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jacksoni flew laugh iug and boisterous fram tree to tree and an 

 opportunity was afforded me to get an insight into the home-life 

 of this bird. This Wood -Hoopoe was, for that matter, one of 

 the commonest birds, seen almost daily on our jourueyings in the 

 forests, whereas Ehinopomastus cyanomelas schalowi was less 

 common. Bycanistes suhcylindriciis frequently was both heard 

 and seen, but it was exceedingly difficult get near it, though I 

 was fortunate enough to disclose some interesting (perhaps non- 

 coincident) features in the life of this Hornbill. In the more 

 unapproachable and remote places in the depths of the forest I 

 found Turdinus pyrrhopterus elgonensis, described anew by me 

 from Elgon. Alcippe ahyssinica ahyssinica, Telophonus australis 

 emini, MelocicJda mentalis amauroura and several others. Where 

 bushes and thickets formed an almost impenetrable confusion 

 the finest songsters of the woods sang their various melodies: 

 Fycnonotus tricolor fayi, J^hyllastrephus tephrolaemus kikuyuensis, 

 I'll, cahanisi succosus, Andropadus gracilirostris chagwensis, An- 

 drop, latirostris eugenius. and higher up among the dry branches 

 Alseonax murinus murinus, Muscicapa infulata and Terpsiphone 

 perspicillata suahelica were catching insects. 



Out of sight or seen only with difficulty the Honey-guides 

 flew from tree to tree, and from the forests of Elgon the follo- 

 wing were brought home: Indicator indicator, the commonest of 

 the representatives of this family, Indicator variegatus variegatus 

 and the very rare West-African Indicator conirostris conirostris. 

 In open patches in the forest, where the ground was covered 

 with bushes, or in glades I found among others, Apalis cinerea 

 cinerea, the rare Hyphanturgus stephanophorus , Cryptolopha 

 mackensiana^ Laniarius liihderi, Cossypha heuglini, C. caffra 

 iolaema and once a single specimen of Schoenicola apicalis. 



In and below the forest-belt on the eastern slopes of Mount 

 Elgon, where the well-known caves are situated, long stretches 

 of the ground is often bare and covered with large and small 

 boulders. On and around these boulders Thamnolaea albisca- 

 pidata suhrufipennis occurred sparingly. On the walls and roofs 

 of the caves hung numerous nests with eggs of Hirundo ango- 

 lensis, seemingly rather common in such localities, though not 

 so common as Hirundo senegalensis, which occurred both here 

 and elsewhere. In the neighbourhood of such caves Lyhius 

 hidentatus aequatorialis, Cuculus solitarius and Coccystes cafer 

 were also shot. 



Eastern slopes of Elgon up to about 13.000 feet. 



It may be said of the eastern slopes of Elgon, that they 

 are forest-clad up to about 12.000 feet above sea-level. The dense 

 forests extend right up to about 10.000 and exhibit for the most 

 part the same picture as on a lower level and one also finds 



