the Anglo-German Frontier of Uganda. ~05 



Gallinago nigripennis. Black- winged Snipe. 



major. . Solitary Snipe. 



gallinago. Common Snipe. 



Porphyrio porphyrio. African Purple Gallinule. 

 Fulica cristata. Crested Coot. 



9. Luke Karenge, South-ivest Ankole. — December 1903. 



Nyroca brunnea. Brown Pochard. 

 Anas undulata. Yellow-billed Duck. 

 Nettion punctatum. Spotted Teal. 

 Limnocorax niger. Black Rail. 

 Crex crex. Land-Rail. 

 Porzana intermedia. Baillon's Crake. 



Notes on some of the Species in the foregoing List. 



ICTEROPSIS PELZELNI (Hai'tl.). 



Silagra pelzelni Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 282 [Kome I., 

 Victoria Nyanza]. 



Ploceus pelzelni Reichenow r , Vog. Afr. iii. p. 75 (1904). 



The only examples of this species in the British Museum 

 are from Wadelai, Equatorial Africa. They agree perfectly 

 with the birds before us, which were collected at Msozi, on 

 the western shore of Victoria Nyanza. 



Hyphantornis shelleyi Sharpe. 



An adult male in change-plumage, killed at Burumba in 

 August, and a so-called female (? immature male) from 

 Alulema, in April, apparently belong to this species. 



Hyphantornis fischeri (Reichenow). 



Ploceus fischeri Reichenow, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 70 (1904). 



An adult male from Msozi, on the western shore of 

 Victoria Nyanza, agrees well with a series of specimens from 

 Wadelai and Magungo, Equatorial Africa, but the back is 

 slightly more olivaceous in tint. One specimen, however, in 

 the series is very similar in this respect. 



Pyromelana wertheri Reichenow^. 



Pyromelana wertheri Reichenow, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 122 (1904). 

 Doggett's collection contains two males in full breeding- 

 dress from Mulema, procured in April, and a male from 



