54 Mr. F. J. Jackson on Birds 



163. ACROCEPHALUS TUllDOIDES. 



Acrocephalus turdoides (Meyer) ; Seebohm^ Cat. B. v. 

 p. 95 (1881). 



No. 825. c? . Berkeley Bay, Victoria Nyanza, Feb. 2, 

 1895. Iris brown; bill dark brown, the lower mandible 

 whitish horn with dusky tip ; roof of mouth bright orange- 

 red; feet pale slaty grey. 



Several heard in the long reeds and papyrus. The note is 

 loud and grating. This was the only specimen seen, though 

 I got within a few yards of several as they sang concealed 

 in the tall reeds. 



164. Calamonastes simplex. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 

 Calamonastes simplex (Cab.); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 154; 



Keichen. Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 225 (1894); Sharpe, 

 P.Z. S. 1895, p. 482; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 72 (1896) ; 

 Hartert, Afr. Sun, App. p. 353 (1899) ; O. Neum. J. f. O. 

 1900, p. 308. 



Nos. 6, 7. cJ ? • Mauungu Wilderness, Dec. 30, 1891. 

 Irides hazel ; bill black ; feet dark '^ shrimp '^-brown, rather 

 paler in the female. 



This species is very plentiful in suitable places, but it is 

 essentially a bird of the wilderness. It is particularly 

 abundant between Tara and Mt. Mauungu, also in the 

 wilderness between the River Voi and Kibwesi. In 1890 I 

 also obtained a specimen in Turquel in the Siik country. 

 This bird is more often heard than seen, as it is in the habit 

 of perching on the top of some acacia or other tree, and 

 keeps up a curious metallic call. 



Inside the female I found a fully-formed egg, rather smaller 

 than a Hedge -Sparrow^s, light blue, with pale brown 

 speckles. 



165. Calamocichla leptorhyncha. 



Calamonastes leptorhynchus (Fischer & Reichen.) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 154. 



Calamocichla leptorhyncha Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 58 

 (Bukoba); id. Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 219 (1894) (Karema, 



