44 Mr. F. J. Jackson un Birds 



No. 338. ? ad. Kamassia, 6500 feet, Aug. 24, 1896. 

 Bill black ; feet horn-blue ; iris bright yellow. 



144'. NlLAUS MINOR. 



Nilaus minor Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 479 ; Shelley, B. 

 Africa, i. p. 53 (1896) ; O. Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 273. 



No. 40. ? . Kibwezi, 3000 feet, March 9, 1892. 



No. 56. S. „ „ March 15, 1892. Bill 



black, base of loM'er mandible horn-blue ; feet horn-blue ; 

 iris brown. 



These were the first and only two specimens I saw in 1892. 

 On March 6th I found them building their nest, so gave them 

 six days to allow them to finish building and lay eggs. On 

 the 9th I shot the female as it left the nest, but did not 

 succeed in getting the male till the 15th, although it never 

 left the locality, and constantly kept up its call, which was 

 easily recognizable. The nest, which is about 3 inches in 

 diameter, is neatly made of lichens, and lined with fibre, and 

 was placed on the branch of an acacia tree at a height of 25 

 feet. It is not unlike a Chaffinch's. The eggs, two in number, 

 are of a grey stone-colour, rather sparingly spotted with 

 black, with larger spots of very dark brown shading into the 

 ground-colour on their edges. 



Nos. 367, 368. S ad. Njemps, Sept. 19, 1896. 

 [This species diff"ers from N. capensis in having the median 

 dorsal streak tinged with fawn-colour and not so white. The 

 lower back is white in the centre, slightly varied with black- 

 edged feathers and having the sides mostly black. In 

 N. capensis the lower back is entirely ocellated with black- 

 edged white feathers, and these are characteristic of the female 

 also. In N. minor the wing is scarcely more than 3 inches 

 long, though one of Mr. Jackson's specimens from Njemps 

 has the wing 3'2. The British Museum also contains a 

 specimen of this small Bush-Shrike from Teita, presented by 

 Sir Robert Harvey.— R. B. S.] 



145. NlCATOR CHLORIS. 



Nicator chloris (Less.) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 56 (1896) ; 

 Sharpe, Bull. B. O. Club, vi. p. xlviii (1897 : Ntebi). 



