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203. TURDUS ELGONENSIS. 



Merula elgonensis Sharpe, Ibis^ 1891^ p. 445. 



Turdus elgonensis Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 88 (1896); Sharpe, 

 in Seebohm's Mon. Turdiclse, i. p. oil, pi. Ixxii. (1899); 

 O. Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 309. 



Turdus deckeni (iiec Cab.) ; Hartert, Afr. Sun, App. p. 354 

 (1899). 



No. 37. S ad. Ravine, Man, March 17, 1896. Iris 

 brown; eyelids yellow; bill bright orange; feet dusky 

 yellow. Much worn plumage, just beginning to moult. In 

 habits the biid resembles the Blackbird (T. merula). 



No. 472. ? ad. Ravine, Feb. 20, 1897. Generally 

 singly or in pairs. 



No. 539. ? juv. Ravine, March 18, 1897. Iris brown ; 

 eyelids greenish yellow ; bill dull brown, lower mandible 

 dusky orange; feet pale olive-brown. 



No. 604. (^ ad. Ravine, April 4, 1897. Stomach con- 

 tained berries. 



No. 661. S juv. Ravine, July 17, 1897. Bill dusky 

 brown with yellow edges ; feet dusky yellow. 



No. 662. S ad. Ravine. July 17, 1897. 



No. 865. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, Feb. 14, 1898. Eye- 

 lids yellow; bill orange-red ; feet dull yellow. 



Nos. 1227, 1228. S ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, June 21, 

 1898. 



No. 1263. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, July 3, 1898. Bill 

 orange-yellow. Plentiful. Habits identical with those of 

 the Blackbird. If disturbed its call is like that of a young 

 Blackbird when scared on being hunted out of gooseberry- 

 bushes at home. Stomach contained beetles, picked up 

 from the ground. 



204. MONTICOLA SAXATILIS. 



Monticola saxatilis (L.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 161 ; 

 Reichen. Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 235 (1894); Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1895, p. 485; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 89 (1896); 

 Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 581 (Machako's) ; Hartert, Afr. Sun, 

 App. p. 354 (1899); Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 162; 

 O. Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 312. 



