376 HETERHYPH ANTES INSIGNIS 



bjr Mr. Jackson on Mount Elgon and figured, " Ibis," 1891, pi. 6, 

 fig. 1. A little later Mr. Sjostedt figured the full plumaged 

 male (Sv. Ak. Handl. Stockh. 1895, pi. 9), whicli differs from 

 the female in having the forehead and crown bright rufous, 

 instead of black like the remainder of the head, and is the 

 Symplectes ineussi of Dr. Reichenow. 



The species is probably a frequenter of wooded highlands, 

 which may account for its not having been recorded from the 

 country between Camaroons and Mount Elgon, for I am 

 unwilling to look upon the Camaroons S. croconotus as sub- 

 specifically distinct from H. insignis. 



The most eastern range known to me for the species is 

 Embo, on the north-east side of Mount Kenia, where a specimen 

 has been procvared by Lord Delamere, February, 1900, and 

 there is another of his in the British Museum from Boromo 

 on the Kikuyu escarpment, December 9, 1899. Mr. Xeumann 

 obtained a male on the Mau highland, and Mr. Jackson has 

 met with it there, at Nandi and Mount Elgon, and writes : 

 " c? and ?, Ravine, June 24, 1896. Iris crimson brown; bill 

 black ; feet bluish flesh-colour." 3 , Ravine, Mai-ch 20, 1897. 

 " Feet brown. Found nearly always in pairs. In habits 

 these Weaver-birds much I'esemble our Goldfinch, being found 

 in high trees, and twisting and turning into all sorts of 

 positions in search of their insect food. The stomach con- 

 tained beetles, insects, &c., but no grain or seed." 



Nandi, 6,500 feet, 2, June 13, 1896. "Feet pale brown. 

 Always in pairs. Climbs about big stems and branches like 

 a Tit." Nandi, 2, May 26, 1898. "Breeding, nest made of 

 corkscrew-like tendrils of convolvuli, with long retoi't-shaped 

 spout, woven on to the under side of a branch of a thorn- 

 tree, but not suspended from the end of a branch. Eggs two, 

 pale blue." 3 , juv., Nandi, July 7, 1898. " Iris brown ; bill 

 dusky horu-colour, the lower mandible whitish horn ; feet pale 

 slaty brown." 



