NILAUS NIGRITEMPORALIS 461 
and two young birds from Ruwenzori, and one male from 
Mulema (Doggett). 
Nilaus nigritemporalis. 
Nilaus nigritemporalis, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, pp. 36, 218 Ngoma; 
Shelley B. Afr. i. No. 715 (1896); Stark and Scl. Birds S. Afr. ii. 
p. 17 (1901) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 541 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. 
B. iy. p. 302 (1903) ; Stoehr and Sel. J. 8. Afr. Orn. Union 1906, 
p. 94 N. H. Rhodesia ; Neave, Manch. Mem. li. No. 10, p. 76 (1907) 
N. EL. Rhodesia ; Sheppard J. §. Afr. Orn. Union 1909, p. 29 Beira ; 
Neave, Ibis 1910, p. 229 Chambezi valley. 
Nilaus afer nigritemporalis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, p. 365. 
Adult. Similar to N. brubru, from which it differs in the white eye- 
brow not extending back behind the eye, the entire upper half of the sides 
and back of the neck being black or brown like the crown; less rufous 
on the side of the body, this colour being often broken up or forming a 
broad band with white on each side. ‘Iris hazel; bill and feet dark lead- 
grey.” Total length 5°5 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3:3, tail 2:0, tarsus 0-9. 
Zambesi, 3, 7.10.98 (Alexander), 2, wing 3:3, Mpimbi (A. Sharpe). 
Immature. Like those of N. brubru, and no other member of the genus 
in having black streaks on the throat. The very young birds have no 
rufous on the sides of the body. 
The Black-browed Brubru ranges from the Zambesi below 
the Victoria Falls and from the Beira district northward to 
the Pangani River and the Unyamwesi country of German 
East Africa. Alexander, who met with this species on 
the Zambesi below its junction with the Kafue, writes: 
“By no means common. Our four specimens were obtained 
on high ground clothed with the tree Copaifera mopane. A 
male obtained on October 7 had breeding-organs much de- 
veloped, while on December 31 a nestling was procured. The 
call-note is a loud whistle.” The species has been obtained 
at Zomba (Whyte), Tanganyika Plateau (Manning), Idunda 
(Fiilleborn), Malangali (Marwitz), Songea (Stierling), Kakoma 
(Béhm), Usaramo (Fischer). Of all these naturalists and 
travellers in E. Africa, Bohm (J. f. O. 1883, p. 181) 
