obtained m British East Africa. 613 



. No. 962. ? juv. Nandi forest, 6500 feet, April 10, 1898. 

 Iris brown ; bill dusky brown, lower mandible horny white ; 

 feet slate-colour. 



No. 1030. 6 ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 24, 1898. Iris 

 crimson ; bill black ; feet slate-colour. Fairly plentiful. 

 The stomach contained caterpillars and insects. 



[No. 962 is evidently immature. It is sooty black above, 

 the head also blackish, but mottled with dull orange bases 

 to the feathers, the commencement of the full plumage. 

 The sides of the face are more distinctly jellow, and the 

 throat approaches a uniform dull orange. The rest of the 

 under surface is ashy, tinged with yellow, and the fore-neck 

 is rather blacker. The wing-margin is yellowish, and this 

 character persists in a male bird (July 27), which is black, 

 with the yellow forehead, face, and throat of the adult, but 

 has the breast intermingled with the olive-yellow plumage of 

 the immature bird. Another male (June 23rd) is quite 

 adult, except for a few black feathers on the yellow throat, 

 which looks as if the species were black-throated at some 

 stage, like H. stephanophorus. Lastly, there is a male from 

 Nandi (April 24) which agrees with the type of H. melano- 

 gaster from the Cameroons, and has a yellow throat and 

 face. This type is also said to be a male, but nevertheless 

 I expect that, when careful observation is made, it will be 

 found that H. melanogaster is the female of H. stephano- 

 phorus, and the latter name will have to be dropped. — 

 R. B. S.] 



58. Sycobrotus insignis. 



Sycohrotus insiffnis Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, pp. 117, 253, pi. vi. 

 fig. 1 ; id. Bull. B. O. C. vi. p. iv, err. (1897). 



Symplectes croconotus Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 186; 

 Sjostedt, Svenska Ak. Handl. xxvii. no. 1, taf. ix. (1895). 



Heterhyphantes stephanophorus Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C vi. 

 p. xliii, 1897, lapsu cal. 



No. 117. 6. Ravine, June 24, 1896. Iris crimson- 

 brown ; bill black ; feet bluish flesh-colour. The first 

 observed by me. 



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