— 130 - 



Parisoma lugens jacksoni Sharpe. — Rchw. III. p. 522. 



3 (5(5 ad. 20. 5., 26. 5., 2. 6. ; 1 Q ad. 2. 6. Mount Elgon. 



Here and there on the eastern slopes of Elgon — up to 

 about 7.000 feet — this form occurred very commonly and was 

 frequently seen in the company of Farus albiventris. 

 Wing, tarsus, 



60, 64, 65 ram. 20 mm. cfcT 



63 mm. 20 mm. 9 



Irides dark-brown; bill black; legs dark lead-grey — greyish 

 brown. (According to Reich enow, the legs of F. I. lugens 

 are black.) 



(Reichenow (op. cit. and "Vogelf. d. Mittelafr. Seengeb.", 

 1912, p. 355) considers that the genus Farisoma belongs to 

 Fnridae^ whereas g. - G r a n t (Ibis 1913, p. 627) and S c 1 a t e r 

 & M. -Praed (Ibis, 1918, p. 705—706) place it among Musci- 

 capidae. 



Campephagidae. 



Coracina caesia pura (Sharpe). — Rchw. II. p. 515. 



1 (5 ad. 17. 4. Kiambu. - 5 S6 ad. 21. 5., 31. 5., Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. — 



1 Q ad. 17. 4.; 1 S ad. 19. 9. Kiambu. - 5 QQ ad. 23. 5., 1. 7.; B Q juv. 



31. 5., 15. 6. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



This race was very abundant in the forests on the eastern 

 slopes of Elgon. The bird keeps well concealed among the foli- 

 age high up in the trees, and having perched on any branch in 

 the shelter of the dense leaves, it remains there, motionless and 

 quiet for a long time. When it thinks it has been seen it moves 

 slowly along the branch, — only a few inches — or flies to 

 some other branch near by. It is a slow and poor flyer. The 

 bird is seldom met with in the depths of the forest, but gene- 

 rally on the outskirts or in the sunlit glades. Once I observed 

 a pair where the acacia-forest adjoins the steppe. ' 



The females are much ligther than the males. One cf spe- 

 cimen from Elgon has an almost entirely black chin. The young 

 birds — whose dress is similar to that of the females — are 

 distinguished by the lower tail-coverts, there being always black 

 transverse bands, about 3—4 mm. wide, on the tips, or just 

 above the tips of these feathers. When a little above the tips 

 of the feathers, these black transverse bands are bounded by 

 white bands on both sides, sometimes the tips of the feathers 

 are black and above this there is a white patch. Tn one specimen 

 a number of the feathers of the under surface have white, 

 narrow transverse bands; all the young birds have, in addition, 

 the edges of the primaries and of the secondaries white, and 

 the tips are, for the most part, white-edged as well. 



