284 ZOOLOGICAL BESULTS OF THE RUWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



a-d. 6. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., 19th-22nd March. [Nos. 217. 



d. 



R. E. B. ; 1384. B. C. ■ 2219, 2231. G. L.] 



e-g. 6 2 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 4tk-19th June. [Nos. 427. R. E. B. : 

 1627, 1650. B. C] 



h, i. 6 . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 22nd & 24tk July. [Nos. 489, 

 495. R. E. B.] 



Adult male and female. Iris varies from kazel to dark brown ; eyelids red ; bill 

 coral-red ; feet vary from rose or pink to yellowish-brown or brown. 



Adult males (a-d) of the Black-fronted Dioch, all killed in March and some of them 

 marked " breeding," vary greatly in colour ; in some the crown and chest are rosy, while 

 in others these parts are sandy buff. Again, in some specimens there is a strongly- 

 marked black band across the forehead, while in others it is narrow and ill-defined. 



QlJELEA CARDINALIS (Hartl). 



Quelea cardinalis Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 112 (1904) ; Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 119 (1905) ; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 270 [Lake Tanganyika]. 

 a. [ j imm.] 60 miles W. of Entebbe, 3700 ft., 29th Nov. [No. 3017. R. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill and feet brown. 



[The Cardinal Dioch was only procured near Entebbe. — R. B. W.~\ 



Pyromelana ansorgei Hartert. 

 Pyromelana ansorgei Hartert, in Ansorge, Under Afr. Sun, App. p. 314, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1899) ; 



Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 117 (1904); Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 102 (1905) ; Neumaun, Bull. 



B.O.C. xxiii. p. 47 (1908). 

 Pyromelana xanthochlamys Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C. xiii. p. 10 (1903). 

 Penthetria hartlaubi Cab. and Coliuspasser dubiosus Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. p. 47 (1908). 



a-c. 6 ? imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., 14th-19th March. 

 [Nos. 1381, 1382. B. C; 2194. G. L.] 



d. 6 . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 22nd July. [No. 488. R. E. B.] 



Adult male. Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



Immature male and female. Iris dark brown ; upper mandible black, lower brown, 

 whitish towards the base ; feet dark brown. 



I have compared the adult male in the present collection with the type-specimen of 

 P. ansorgei Hartert from Masiudi, Unyoro, and also with the type of P. xantho- 

 chlamys Sharpe from Hoima, Unyoro (not Ruwenzori, as stated by Captain Shelley). 

 There can be no doubt that all three specimens belong to the same species. 

 Mr. Alexander also procured a specimen at Gudima, on the Kibali River. All the 

 four specimens mentioned above are males in full breeding-plumage ; the adult female 

 is still unknown. 



