68 Mr. F. J. Jacksou on Birds 



No. 591. S ad. Ravine, March .31, 18L>7. Iris hazel, 

 eyelids light brown. 



Nos. 673, ? ; 674, 675, S ad. Ravine, July 20, 1897. 



No. 1097. ? ad. Nandi,6500 feet. May 10, 1898. Iris 

 hazel, with ring of yellow round the pupil, which gives the 

 eye an appearance of being ochreous yellow ; eyelids brown ; 

 bill black ; feet yellowish flesh-colour. 



[The sexes are alike in colour, but the male is the larger 

 bird (c?, wing 2*15, tail 2-25-2-5 j ?, wing 2*05, tail 

 l*9-2*0). The specimens killed in July are decidedly 

 greyer than those procured from March to June, which have 

 a somewhat browner shade above. — R. B. S.] 



190. Eminia lepida. 



Eminia lepida Hartl.; Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 57 

 (Bukoba); id.Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 225 (1894) ; Shelley, 

 B. Africa, i. p. 71 (1896); Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 308. 



No. 39. 2 juv. Ntebi, Sept. 30, 1895. 



No. 58. c? ad. Ntebi, Oct. 5, 1895. 



No. 955. c? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 9, 1898. Iris 

 bright crimson-brown ; bill black ; feet pale flesh-colour. 

 Sings very sweetly, with some notes not unlike those of a 

 Nightingale. 



No. 1027. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 24, 1898. 

 Plentiful in the brush, but difficult to see. Creeps about in 

 the thick matted vegetation. Stomach contained beetles. 



Nos. 1035, 1040. S ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 25, 

 26, 1898. Note very loud. 



No. 1074. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, May 5, 1898. 



[The immature female is decidedly a paler bird than 

 the male, with a lighter grey head, and somewhat less 

 chestnut on the throat. A young female from Ntebi 

 has the chestnut on the throat paler, the head light 

 grey, with a wash of yellowish green on the occiput; 

 there is likewise very little tinge of chestnut on the under 

 tail-coverts. 



The female is smaller than the male and has a shorter bill. 

 The wing is 2-65-2-75 inches in the female and 2 85-3-0 



