358 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OF THE RUWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



This species is most nearly allied to A. rufogularis (Fraser), but is distinguished by 

 having a shorter bill, with the under mandible entirely black, the throat and chest of 

 a paler and brighter brick-red, and the breast and belly pure white, without any trace 

 of olive. 



Iris hazel ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 



Total length 4 - 3 inches; wing T9 ; tail TS5 ; tarsus 0'72. 

 V single specimen of this new species was shot by Mr. R. E. Dent in the top of a 

 tall tree in the Mpanga Forest. It was the only specimen seen. — B. B. W.~\ 



Apalis affinis Grant. (Plate XIV. fig. 2, d .) 



Apalis affinis Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 116 (1906). 



Apalis porphyrolama Jackson (nee Reich. & Neumann), Ibis, 1906, p. 546 [Ruwenzori]. 



a. I. d 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., 11th January. [Nos. 88, 89. 

 B. E. D. Types of the species.'] 



This Alpine species is most nearly allied to A. porphyrola-ma Reich. & Neum., but 

 lias the throat-patch of a much darker chestnut-colour. 



Iris light hazel ; bill black ; feet light brown. 



Total length about 4/5 inches ; culmen - 5 ; wing 2 - ; tail 21 ; tarsus 07. 



[During the first week of our stay on Ruwenzori Mr. R. E. Dent one morning shot 

 four examples of this little bird out of a flock of six or eight individuals. They were 

 seen in the top of a tall tree in the forest at 6000 ft. Two of them were much knocked 

 about by the shot or splinters of wood, and, thinking that we were certain to procure 

 many more specimens during our stay, only a pair was preserved. Unfortunately these 

 proved to be the only ones met with by the Expedition. It is remarkable that the 

 two new species of the genus Apalis should have been obtained by Mr. Dent under 

 almost exactly similar circumstances. 



A. affinis must be a very rare bird, and probably A. denti is equally so. — B. B. IV.] 



Apalis caniceps (Cassin). 



Eremomela caniceps Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 638 (1905). 

 a. d. Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 22nd July. [No. 3511. B. B. W.] 



Iris light hazel ; bill black ; feet dark flesh-colour. 



The characters of the genus Apalis require revision, for the present species 

 certainly belongs to this genus and not to Eremomela. The tail is longer and graduated 

 as in A. thoracica (Shaw & Nodd.) (the type of Apalis), and not short and square- 

 ended as in E.flaviventris (Burch.) (the type of Eremomela). 



[A single specimen was obtained on the edge of the Eturi Forest, at Fort Beni. It 

 was breeding at the end of July. — B. B. W.] 



