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Fyrrhocheira walleri elgonensis Sharpe. — Rchw. II. p. 698. 

 1 Q ad. 21. 7. Mount Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



Only once did I see this race on the eastern slopes of 

 Elgon. A large flock — probably numbering about 30 or 40 — 

 perched in the tops of the Podocarpus trees eating, with a great 

 clammer, of the fruits. 



V. Someren (Ibis 1918, p. 879) states that this bird, and 

 the following, occurred in the bamboo forest, but I never met 

 either of them there. 



My specimen is just beginning to moult and has a wing 

 measurement of 121 mm., tarsus 22 mm. 



Irides have a dark -brown ring innermost encircled by a 

 narrow one of blood-red ; bill and legs black. 



Atnydrus morio riippelU Verr. — Rchw. II. p. 699. 



4 (5(5 ad. 28. 5. and 3. 6.; 1 Q ad. 3. Q.; 1 <$ juv. 28. 5.; 

 1 Q juv. 29. 6. (13.500 feet) ; Mount Elgon, 8.000 ft. 



In several places on the slopes of Elgon I met with this 

 race and it always appeared jn large flocks which frequented 

 both the short and the tall trees in the interior;of the forests. They 

 were not frightened away by shots but calmly remained sitting, 

 calling to each other with a skrill cry, which reminds one of the 

 "laughing" of the magpie. In the stomachs of those shot at 

 8.000 feet I only found fruits, but the one shot up by the crater- 

 lake of Elgon (at an altitude of about 13.500 ft.) bad its stomach 

 full of insects and spiders. 



When I visited the crater-lake of Elgon I was astonished 

 to find this race very common so high up in these cold and in- 

 hospitable regions. 



They flew about among the gigantic Senecio johnstoni which 

 clad the slopes right up to the very summit (see picture) but they 

 were very shy and in spite of eager eff'orts I did not succeed 

 in procuring more than one young bird, which was however, 

 badly damaged by the shot. 



I saw the old birds repeatedly feeding the young one, which 

 sat shrieking in a Senecio, whence it can thus be considered 

 certain that the young one had been born in these alpine regions. 

 Whether the birds breed on the ledges of the mountain, in holes 

 in the rock (Reichenow op. cit.) or elsewhere 1 was unable 

 to ascertain. It is of great interest anyhow to be able to prove 

 that the vertical distribution of the race at least extends to over 

 13.500 feet. 



Two of the specimens in my series are in moult, the others 

 are in full pluamage. In the young bird the primary coverts 

 are, for the most part, black and have near the tips a reddish 

 brown band, narrow on the outer-web, wide on the inner web. 



