332 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on 



This is the first time that I have seen examples of this in- 

 teresting species, and I now find that my Dryoscopus jacksoni 

 from Mount Elgon (Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 57, 1901) is very close 

 to Dr. Reichenow's D. bocagei. When I described D. jacksoni, 

 I had no specimens in the Museum with which to compare 

 it, and my description was in consequence published 

 without any indication of an ally. This failure of mine has 

 consequently misled Professor Reichenow, who, in his third 

 volume of the ' Vogel Afrikas,' has placed D. jacksoni in the 

 genus Laniarius (p. 576), and D. bocagei (p. 557) in the 

 genus Chloroj)honeus. The differences between the two 

 species are very small, and consist principally in the blacker 

 wings and tail of D. jacksoni, these being decidedly greyer in 

 D. bocagei ; but a lai'ger series may easily prove the two 

 species to be identical. 



[Of this species I have seen only the examples that I shot 

 at the Ja, All were in the small trees bordering cultivated 

 o-round. One of them was heard making a call much like 

 that of D. verreauxi. No. 597 was shot just after leaving 

 the nest, in a little tree on the border of a patch of maize. 

 The nest was shallow, cup-shaped, and composed entirely of 

 the dry tendrils of a vine, woven together. — G. L. B.] 



Dryoscopus senegalensis. 



Dryoscopus verreauxi Cab. & Reichenow ; Neum. J. f . O. 



1899, p. 414. 



Dryoscopus senegalensis (Hartl.) ; Reichenow, t. c. ii. 

 p. 592 (1903) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. iv. p. 298 (1903) . 



a. S ad. Efulen, Jan. 9, 1902. " Shot while pairing.^' 



b. ? ad. „ Jan. 28, 1902. 



c. S ad. „ April 3, 1902. 

 Nos. 30, 82. S ■ K,iver Ja, Feb. 1903. 



Nos. 709, 718. ? ad. River Ja, June 23, 1904. 



No. 962. ? ad. Efulen, July 25, 1905. Ovaries granular. 



Nos. 1470, 1534, 1583. S ad.; 1425, 1582, 1587. ? ad. 

 River Ja, Feb. and March 1906. The males have the testes 

 large, and in the female the eggs are beginning to form. 



Nos. 1996, 2005. S ad. Bitje, River Ja, Oct. 1906. 



