406 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE RUWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



Teepsiphoxe igxea Reichenow. 



Tchitrea ignea Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 512 (1903). 



Terpsiphone ignea Dubois, Ann. Mus. Congo, i. fasc. i. p. 13, pi. vi. fig. 2 (1905). 



a. 2 . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 9th Aug. [No. 1769. D. C] 



h. s . 20 miles N.W. of Fort Beni, 3000 ft., 11th Aug. [No. 3541. B. B. W.] 



c. 8 . Mawambi, E. Congo Forest, 2500 ft., 31st Oct. [No. 3650. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark grey or dark brown ; eyelids blue ; bill bluish-grey. 



The male differs from the male of T. nigriceps Hartl. in having the tail dark brown 

 washed with rufous, instead of chestnut, and the black of the head extends over the 

 nape, whereas in T. nigriceps it terminates on the occiput. 



In neither of the male specimens is the tail fully grown, but the moulting-feathers 

 are of the same reddish-brown colour as the old ones, and there is no reason to suppose 

 that they will ever become bright chestnut. 



The female differs from the female of T. nigriceps in having the crown and nape 

 greyish-black, this colour extending even on to the upper mantle, where it becomes 

 paler ; the throat and sides of the head dark grey and the tail reddish-brown as in the 

 male. Younger examples of T. nigriceps have the tail very similarly coloured ; but 

 the greyish-black head and throat of the female of the present species serve to 

 distinguish it at a glance from T. nigriceps. 



8 . Total length (tail in moult) 7 inches ; wing 3T ; tail 3-5 ; tarsus 0-6. 

 2.. „ „ 57 inches ; wing 2 - 8 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus 0-6. 



I have little doubt that these birds have been correctly identified as T. ignea, a 

 species originally described from Angola. 



[This Brown-tailed Paradise-Flycatcher was not uncommon in the Congo Forest. — 

 R. B. W.] 



Elminia longicauda (Swainson). 



Elminia longicauda Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 496(1903) ; Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 96 [Cameroon; 

 habits] ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 537 [Toro] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 457 [Cameroon]. 



a-c. 8 2. 1 00-150 miles W. of Entebbe, 4100-5000 ft., 4th-12th Dec. [Nos. 47. 

 B. E. 1). ; 1030, 1055. D. C] 



d,e. 8 2. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., 26th Jan. [Nos. 129, 130. 

 B. E. D.} 



f. Ad. Mubuku Valley. E. Ruwenzori, 5500 ft., 21st Feb. [No. 1253. D. C] 



g-i.6%. .. „ .. 6000 ft., 9th-l 5th Mar. [Nos. 1348. D. C. ; 



3187, 3189. B. B. W.] 



/,: 8 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 23rd May. [No. 3403. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown or dark hazel ; bill and feet black. 



[The Long-tailed Blue Flycatcher was seen near Entebbe and on the plains around 



