90 Mr. F. J. Jacksou on Birds 



239. Pachyprora puella. 



PachyiJrora molitor (Hahn & Kuster) ; Shelley, B. Africa, 

 i. p. 98 (1896, partim). 



Batis molitor Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 581 (Machako's). 



Pachyprora molitor puella Reichen. ; O. Neum. J. f. O. 

 1900, p. 256. 



Nos. 38, 39. $ ? ad. Kibwezi, 3000 feet, March 9, 1892. 



Nos. 94, 95. $ ? ad. Ravine, June 17, 1896. Iris 

 bright green ; bill and feet black. Plentiful in the thick 

 bush and forest. 



No. 316. c? ad. Kamassia, 4000feet,Aug. 22, 1896. Iris 

 green, with inner circle of yellow. 



No. 437. $ ad. Ravine, Dec. 10, 1896. 



Nos. 616, 617. ? ad. Ravine, April 10, 1897. Plentiful 

 either in pairs or three or four together. Makes a curious 

 whirring noise with its wings as it flies from tree to tree. 

 Catches flies on the wing. Very restless and always on the 

 search. Very fond of sitting on the lower dead twigs under 

 the shady green tops of acacia and other trees, which attract 

 various insects. It darts out and seizes flies, &c., on the wing, 

 or hovers like a Sun-bird so as to enable it to pick ofl:' a 

 beetle from the underside of a leaf. 



Nos. 980, 98] . $ ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 13, 1898. 



No. 1229. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, June 22, 1898. 



240. Platystira albifrons. 



Platystira albifrons Sharpe ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 35 

 (Bukoba) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 97 (1896). 



a. S ad. Ntebi, Aug. 9, 1895. Bill black; shield above 

 eye vermilion ; feet black ; iris blue-grey, with very thin 

 white line separating it from the pupil. 



Nos. 41, ? ad. ; 49, 52, S ad. Ntebi, Oct. 2, 3, 1895. 



241. Platystira jacksoni. 



Platystira jachsoni Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 445; id. op. cit. 

 1892, p. 301, pi. vii. fig. 2 ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 97 (1896). 



No. 236. 6 ad. Elgeyu, 5000 feet, Aug. 11,1896. Iris 

 grey-brown ; shield above the eye dark coral-red ; bill black j 



