TELOPHORUS DOHERTYI 401 
along the side of the neck and bending across the crop as a wide gorget, 
black ; the chin and throat, as well as the under tail-coverts, crimson like 
the forehead ; breast and thighs bright yellow, flanks olive green; lining of 
quills dusky, under wing-coverts green. ‘Iris brown; bill black; feet horn 
blue.” Length about 7:5 inches, wing 3:1, tail 3.1, culmen 0-7, tarsus 1:1. 
Nyeri-Aberdare Forest, 3, 7,000 feet, 26. 8. 09 (Jackson Coll.). 
The sexes are alike except that in the female there are very narrow olive 
edges and tips to the rectrices. Wing 3:0. Nyeri-Aberdare Forest, 
? (Jackson Coll.). 
The immature bird has the upper side pale ochraceous with narrow 
blackish crossbars, tail olive greenish, wings olive green with pale ochraceous 
tips to the quills and wing-coverts ; throat dull yellow; sides of the head, 
chest and upper breast yellow with blackish tips and bars, abdomen uniform 
lemon yellow, sides of the body greenish; under tail-coverts red, not bright 
crimson (Hartert). 
Doherty’s Bush-Shrike, perhaps the most beautifully 
coloured of all the genus, was discovered by William Doherty 
on the Kikuyu escarpment at 6,500 to 8,000 ft., close to 
Escarpment Station on the Uganda railway, not on the 
Nandi escarpment as originally stated. About a dozen 
examples were sent by this collector to the Tring Museum. 
It has since been obtained by Carruthers among the Mufum- 
biro volcanoes at 7,000 feet in November, by Grauer in 
the Bugoie Forest in November, and in the forest to the west 
of Tanganyika in June and July, the two first-named localities 
being in the neighbourhood of Lake Kivu on the borders of 
German East Africa and the Congo Free State. 
Mr. Jackson’s collection contains two specimens, a pair, 
obtained by his collector in the Nyeri-Aberdare Forest at 
7,000 feet on August 26,1905: this is not far from Mount 
Kenia. 
All the examples hitherto obtained have been taken at 
considerable elevations in dense forest, to which doubtless 
this species is strictly confined. 
