obtained in British East Africa. 7\ 



No. 229. ^ juv. Elgeyu, 5000 feet, Aug. 10, 1896. 



No. 230. (^ ad. Elgeyu, 5000 feet, Aug. 10, 1896. 

 Bill black ; feet dark slate-colour. 



No. 477, c? juv. Ravine, Feb. 21, 1897. Iris brown; 

 bill black, gape yellow ; feet brownish black. 



No. 495. cJ ad. Ravine, March 2, 1897. Scarce. 

 Found in thick brush. Sings very sweetly, generally in the 

 evening, perched on a dead bush. Very shy, and disappears 

 at once on the approach of danger into the bush, where 

 it can be heard giving vent to a curious low grating noise. 



No. 543. ? ad. Ravine, March 19, 1897. Very shy. 

 Hides itself in clumps of dead sticks overgrown with 

 creepers, &c., in which it hops about, taking a peep at the 

 intruder now and again. This is about the only time it 

 gives anyone a chance of an observation, and no time must 

 be lost in taking advantage of it. 



No. 755. 6 ad. Lake Naivasha, Aug. 10, 1897. 



No. 768. ? ad. „ Aug. 13, 1898. 



[I think that Prof. Reichenow is right in separating Cos- 

 sypha iolcema, from Nyasa-land and Kilimanjaro^ from the 

 typical C. caffra of South Africa ; but I cannot separate the 

 Man bird, which Mr. Oscar Neumann has called C. mauensis, 

 from C. iolama. They appear to me to be absolutely 

 identical, and I have compared a good series of both forms. 



C. iolcema is a greyer bird than C. caffra, and has a darker 

 and more slate-coloured head, but examples in freshly- 

 moulted plumage, which are browner, are very difficult to 

 distinguish. — R. B. S.] 



196. CoSSYPHA MELANONOTA. 



Cossypha melanonota (Cab.) ; Reichen. Vog. deutsch. Ost- 

 Afr. p. 227 (1894) (Bukoba; Siriralsl.) ; Shelley, B. Africa, 

 i. p. 84 (1896). 



a. ? ad. Ntebi, May 31, 1895. Iris brown ; bill black ; 

 feet dull slate-colour. 



b. ? ad. Ntebi, August 1, 1895. 



No. 152. S juv. Nandi, 6500 feet, July 5, 1896. Iris 

 brown ; bill brownish black ; feet pale horn-blue. 



