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[Cabanis's Black Titmouse was met with throughout the acacia-country on the 

 plains around the south end of Ruwenzori. It was, comparatively speaking, a rare 

 species on the east side of the range, but on the west, in the Semliki Valley, it was 

 one of the commonest birds. — R. B. W.~\ 



Parus fasciiventer Reichenow. 



Parus fasciiv enter Reich. Orn. Monatsb. i. p. 31(1893) ; id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 515 (1905). 



Parus fasciiventris Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 237 (1900). 



Pentheres fasciiventer Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 553 [Ruwenzori]. 



a-e. 6 ? et <S imm. Mubuku Valley, Eastern Ruwenzori, 6000-8000 ft., 6th-23rd 



Jan. [Nos. 84. R. E. 1).; 1107, 1145, 1146, 1182. D. C] 

 f-Jc. d 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-10,000 ft., lst-25th Feb. [Nos. 270. 



J). C; 2142, 2167, 2168. G. L. ; 3143. R. B. W.] 



l-p. 6 2 et 6 imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-8500 ft., 8th-25th March, 

 d. d. 



[Nos. 197, 198, 214. R. E. I).; 1412. I). C; 2246. G. L.] 



Adult male and female. Iris brown or dark brown; bill black; feet blue-grey or 

 slate-grey (in one example, olive-green). 



A fine series of this Titmouse was collected on Ruwenzori. The species is apparently 

 peculiar to the range. On the 13th of January Mr. Carruthers procured a male 

 (No. 1146), which he has marked "breeding." 



A quite young bird (No. 198) differs from the adult in having the feathers of the 

 occiput and nape brownish edged with black (instead of uniform black) ; the chin and 

 middle of the throat black ; the cheeks, sides of the head and throat, as well as the 

 chest, greyish-brown (in the adult all these parts are black). The rest of the under- 

 pays whitish-buff, inclining to tawny on the flanks (instead of white) ; the black stripe 

 down the middle of the breast indicated by a few blackish feathers ; the light margins 

 of the quills and wing-coverts yellowish-white (instead of pure white). The outer pair 

 of tail-feathers are much shorter than the middle pair ; whereas in the adult they are 

 of nearly the same length. 



[The Grey-backed White-breasted Tit was found on Ruwenzori from the forest-line at 

 about 6500 feet up to an elevation of 11,000 feet, where it frequented the tree-heaths. 

 It was, however, but rarely seen as high as this, and only when it had ascended the 

 valleys. It is really a bird of the forest-zone, where it is not uncommon. — R. B. W.~\ 



Anthoscopus roccatii Salvad. (Plate XIII. fig. 2, 6 .) 



Anthoscopus roccatii Salvad. Boll. Mus. Tor. xxi. no. 542, p. 2 (1906) [Entebbe]. 

 a-d. 6 $ . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 10th-23rd May. [Nos. 1610. 1). C. ; 



d. 



3346, 3347, 3348. R. B. W.] 



