340 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF TILE RUWEXZOR1 EXPEDITION. 



Laniarius erythrogaster (Cretzschm.). (Plate XIX. fig. 22, egg.) 



Laniarius erythrogaster Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 586 (1903); Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 551 [Toro] ; 

 Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 589 [White Nile, Sobat, and Baro Rivers]. 



a-c. 6 2 . 70-80 miles W. of Entebbe, 3500-3600 ft., 1st Dec. [%>s. 1021, 1022. 

 J). C. ; 3018. R. B. W.] 



d, e. 6 2. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 28th April. [Nos. 250. B. E. D. ; 

 2286. G. L.] 



f-v. 6 2 et <j imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 4th-29th May. [Nos. 290, 

 a. a. a. a. a. d. 



295, 337, 343, 364, 365, 366, 372, 373, 374. B. E. I).; 1492, 1493, 1583. D. C. ; 



2356. G. L.; 3344, 3361. B.B. W.~] 



■w-y. 6 2 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 2nd-5th June. [Nos. 415, 419, 431. 

 R. E. I).} 



Iris cream-colour ; bill and feet black. 



Several immature birds in the present collection differ from the adult in having 

 the breast-feathers fringed with buff, and a few small feathers at the base of the upper 

 mandible yellow. 



Two eggs of this species were procured by Mr. R. B. Woosnam at Mokia on the 

 11th of May, 1906. They are of a rather pointed form and somewhat glossy. The 

 ground-colour is pale blue, spotted and blotched with umber-brown and lilac-grey, the 

 markings being most numerous round the larger end, where they form a distinct zone. 

 Both measure "9x"7 inch. 



[The Scarlet-bellied Bush-Shrike was met with near Entebbe and throughout the 

 journey to Ruwenzori. The species was very numerous in the acacia-country at the 

 south end of the range and in the Semliki Valley. Its musical note was one of the 

 most familiar sounds at the south end, but it was never seen on the mountains. — 



r. b. jr.] 



Laniarius lagdeni Sharpe. 



Laniarius lagdeni Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 54, pi. v. [ Ashanti] ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1908, pp. 287, 



289 [Ruwenzori and Mufumbiro Volcanoes]. 

 Malaconotus lagdeni Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 600 (1903). 



a, 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 9000 ft., 29th March. [No. 2259. G. L.] 



Iris light grey ; bill black ; feet slate-blue. 



The type-specimen of this extremely rare species was procured by Sir Godfrey Lagden 

 in Ashanti in 1883, and, so far as I am aware, has remained unique till it was again 

 met with by the Ruwenzori Expedition in 1906. 



Its occurrence in the highlands of Ruwenzori is very remarkable and of the greatest 

 interest. The present specimen, an adult female, differs from the type only in having 



