HYPHANTURGUS BRACHYPTERUS 389 



Bohm met with the species at the Msima River. Fischer 

 collected specimens in Usegua, along the Pangani at Kagehi, 

 Kipini, Mombasa Naiwasha, in Wapokomoland, and several 

 intervening places. Thej were single or in pairs. A nest hj 

 found at Tshara, August 20, was hung about five feet above the 

 gi'ound from the end of a leaf of a young cocoanut palm and 

 contained two naked nestlings, and the mother allowed herself 

 to be caught in the nest. Some of the eggs he took on the 

 coast of Formosa Bay are described as bluish white with small 

 grey spots towards the thick end, and measured OvS to 0'84 

 X 0-56. 



Dr. Stuhlmann, who collected specimens at Lewa in Usam- 

 bara and at Kai'ogwe on the Rufu River, mentions its native 

 names as " Korombisa " and " Nguja." On Kilimanjaro, Sir 

 Harry Johnston procured two specimens at elevations of 

 3,200 and 0,000 feet. 



On the western side of Victoria Nyanza and in the Upper 

 "White Nile district the species has been procured by Emin at 

 Bukoba, in the Monibuttu country, at Langomeri, and at 

 Magungo the type of Uyphcuitornis croenta. In Torn Dr. 

 Ansorge has obtained the species, and Mr. Jackson one at 

 Butiaba, during the expedition to Ruwenzori. 



According to M. Oustalet it has been found in Somaliland, 

 and the specimens shot by Mr. Haywood at Owaramulka in 

 South Abyssinia are in winter plumage, but appear to me to 

 belong to this species and not to Sitngni snhpersonata . Accord- 

 ing to Mr. Pease: "They spent most of their time runnino- 

 about the branches and probably feeding on insects." 



Hyphanturgus brachypterus. 



Ploceus brachypterus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 168, pi. 10 (1837) 



Senegal. 

 Hyphanturgus brachypterus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 521 (1896). 

 Sitagra brachyptera, Sharpe, Cat. 13. M. xiii. p. 42'J (lyQO) ; ^elarkoro, 



Kat. Eiers. p. 129 (1899) egg. 



