368 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE RUWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



Family Turdidx 



Geocichla piaggi.e (Bouv.). (Plate XIX. fig. 3, egg.) 



Geocichla piaggice Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 683 (1905) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 543 [Ruwen- 

 zori]. 



a, b. d 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori, 8000 ft., 11th & 13th Jan. [Nos. 1132, 

 1149. I). C] 



c, d. 2 imra. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 and 8000 ft., 1st & 24th Feb. 

 [Nos. 136. R. E. I). ; 1264. D. C] 



e. $ . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 9000 ft., 10th March. [No. 1311. I). C] 



Iris dark hazel; bill black; feet light brown. 



The immature bird has the upper parts browner than in the adult, the feathers of 

 the head and back streaked along the shaft with pale rufous, and there is a V-shaped 

 black band at the extremity of the feathers on the cheeks, sides of the throat, chest, 

 breast, and flanks. 



Two eggs are of a regular oval shape and somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is 

 pale greenish-blue, marked all over with small blotches and spots of chestnut and 

 purplish-grey. They measure respectively 1TX'78 and T05X'76 inch. 



Both eggs are considerably damaged, the female having been shot on the nest. 



[The Central-African Ground-Thrush was met with on Ruwenzori at altitudes of 

 from 5000 to 9000 ft. It appeared chiefly to frequent the upper parts of the forest- 

 zone, but it was a rare bird and seldom seen. A nest, found on the 10th of March at an 

 altitude of 8600 ft., was placed in the fork of a small tree about 5 feet from the 

 ground, and resembled that of the Blackbird. It contained two eggs. — R. B. IF.] 



Tukdus abtssinicus Gmel. 



Tnrdus abyssinicus Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 689 (1905) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1906, p. 543 [Ruwen- 

 zori] . 



Morula baraka Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 19 (1903) [Ruwenzori] ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, 

 p. 543. 



Tardus baraka Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 687 (1905). 



a-c. d 2. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-12,000 ft., 22nd-31st Jan. 

 [Nos. 122. R. E. D. ; 1189. D. C. ; 3142. JR. B. W.] 



d-f. 6 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000-12,500 ft., 6th-16th Feb 

 [Nos. 151, 157. R. E.I).; 3 49. R. B. W.] 



g-k. 6 2 et ? imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000-9000 ft., 3rd- 

 30th March. [Nos. 1286. B. C. ; 2206, 2208, 2260. G. L.] 



Iris dark hazel or dark brown ; eyelids yellow ; bill orange ; feet yellow or yellowish- 

 brown. 



