400 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE RTTWENZORl EXPEDITION. 



d-f. 6 $ . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 11th & 15th June. [Nos. 3165, 347S, 

 3480. B. B. W.] 



<j-k. 6 et 6 imm. Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 21st-24th July. [Nos. 1732, 

 1735, 1758. D. C. ; 3515. B. B. IF.] 



I. 6 imm. Butagu Valley, W. Ruwenzori, 4000 ft., 30th July. [No. 2443. G. L.] 



Iris grey or dark grey ; eye-wattle scarlet ; bill and feet black. 



B. albifrons Sharpe appears to be founded on somewhat immature male examples 

 of B. cyanea. In the present collection there are males both with and without the 

 white forehead, shot at Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, and from Fort Beni there are males 

 clearly showing a transitional stage, in which the white band on the forehead is only 

 represented by a few white feathers. 



Professor Neumann has recognized four subspecies of B. cyanea, but the differences 

 by which he characterises them seem to be of no value. 



[These small Flycatchers were met with here and there all round, the eastern and 

 south-eastern base of Ruwenzori as Avell as at Fort Beni on the edge of the Congo 

 Forest. Their note is a curious one, somewhat similar to that of Batis orientalis 

 Heugl., which consists of two low clear whistled notes, descending and with a 

 considerable interval between them. B. cyanea utters two very similar notes, but 

 adds a third and lower note the same number of semitones below the second that the 

 second is below the first. — B. B. IF.] 



Megabias ^quatorialis Jackson. 



Megabias aqvatorialis Jackson, Bull. B. O. C. xv. p. 11 (1904) [Entebbe and Toro] ; id. Ibis, 



1906, p. 536 [Toro]. 

 Megabias atrialatvs cequaturialis Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 831 (1905). 



a. ? . Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal, 5000 ft., 17th Sept. [No. 523. B. E. B.] 



Iris crimson ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 



In this species the female has all the tail-feathers, except the outer pair, blackish 

 narrowly margined with chestnut, whereas in the allied M. atrialatus Cassin all the 

 tail-feathers are chestnut. The males are practically indistinguishable. 



Only one specimen was seen. 



Smithornis camerunensis Sharpe. 



Smithomis camerunensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 469 [ ? only, River Ja, S. Cameroon]; id. Ibis, 

 1908, p. 451 [River Ja]. 



a. ? . Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal, 5000 ft., 18th Sept. [No. 3576. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; upper mandible black, lower white ; feet light greenish-yellow. 

 A great deal of confusion has taken place over this species, which is nearly allied 

 to S. capensis Smith, but is somewhat smaller and has a much darker and more richly 



