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pupil. Found in thick foliage of tall trees in the early 

 mornings and late evenings darting and flitting about in 

 search of insects. 



[The series from Nandi presents scarcely any variation in 

 colour. Sometimes the brown of the head is a little deeper 

 in tint, while the under surface is rather more ochraceous in 

 some specimens than in otliers. — R. B. S.] 



187. EUPRINODES FLAVOCINCTA. 



Euprinodes jlavocincta Sliarpe ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1892, 

 p. 57; Hartert, Nov. Zool. vii. p. 49 (1900). 



Chlorodyta jlavocincta Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 72 (1890). 

 Apalis flavocincta (Sharpe) ; Reichen. Vog. deutseh. Ost- 

 Afr. p. 225 (1894) (Bukoha) ; O. Neum. J. f. 0. 1900, p. 306. 

 No. 469. 6 ad. Ravine, Mau, Feb. 19, 1897. Iris hazel ; 

 bill black ; feet very dark brown, toes light brownish flesh- 

 colour, claws dark brown. The first seen. Flitting about in 

 a tree like a Camaroptera. 



No. 508. S ad. Ravine, March 4, 1897. Eyelids pale 

 brown. 



No. 579. ? ad. Ravine, March 29, 1897. 

 No. 621. $ ad. Ravine, April 10, 1897. Iris hazel, with 

 yellowish round ring ; feet dark brown, toes flesh-colour. 

 [The two females show only a very small black chest- spot. 

 As it was extremely difficult to identify this species without 

 comparing the types, I sent one over to Prof. Reichenow, who 

 declared it to be the true E. flavocincta. Mr. Oscar Neumann 

 (/. c.) says that E. flavocincta has the crown olive-green like 

 the back, and E. golzi is the grey-headed form figured by 

 Reichenow as E. flavocincta in the ' Vogel deutseh. Ost- 

 Afrika^s ' (p. 224). Then there is a third species mentioned 

 by Mr. Oscar Neumann {op. cit. p. 307) and described by 

 him as E. (equatorialis. This, he says, is similar to E. golzi, 

 while it has the upper surface lighter and more greenish 

 yellow, has a broader yellow band on the crop, and is larger. 

 As Mr. Neumann says nothing about any green on the head, 

 I take it that the crown is grey as in E. golzi. He mentions 

 that it has a white throat, which separates it from "Apalis 

 flavida, Striekl." 



