408 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OF THE RUWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



Iris dark brown or dark hazel ; upper mandible brown or blackish, lower mandible 

 brown or yellow ; feet greenish-brown or greyish-green. 



[This little bird was found on Ruwenzori at an altitude of between 6500 and 9000 ft., 

 inhabiting the forest-zone and the lower parts of the bamboo. It was very plentiful in 

 the forest and was usually to be seen in small flocks, which were busily searching 

 for insects at the tops of the trees and moved along like a troop of Long-tailed 

 Tits. It was very numerous in the Butagu Valley on the west side of Ruwenzori 

 among the bamboo at 7500 ft. 



At 10,000 ft. its place was taken by a very similar species, C. alpina, which was met 

 with up to 14,000 ft.— R. B. W.] 



Family Hibundinid.e. 



COTILE CINCTA (Bodd.). 



Riparia cincta Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 394 (1903). 

 a. 6 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 12th June. [No. 1(325. I). C] 



Iris dark hazel; bill and feet black. 



[A few were seen on the plains near Lake Edward at the south end of Ruwenzori. 

 —R. B. W.] 



Cotile eufigula Fischer & Reichenow. 



Riparia rufigula Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 400 (1903). 

 a, b. 8 $ imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8500 ft., 7th Feb. [Nos. 144, 

 145. R. E. 2?.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill brown ; feet light brown. 



These two immature birds are in fresh plumage, some of the feathers being still in 

 moult. The upperparts are dark sooty-brown with a distinct, though slight, oily 

 <rloss: the feathers of the chin and throat have distinct dark shafts : the rest of the 

 midcrparts are sooty-brown, tinged on the breast with rufous and indistinctly margined, 

 especially on the under tail-coverts, with pale rufous. 



[A few of these Martins inhabited an open ridge in the Mubuku Valley at 8000 feet, 

 and were seen again in a similar situation in the Luimi Valley. — R. B. W.~\ 



Hikundo gokdoni Jardine. 



Hirundo g or doni Reich. Vcig. Afr. ii. p. 418 (1903); Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 444 [S. Cameroon]. 

 Hirundo neumanni Reich, t. c. p. 418 [N.W. Massailaud], 



a. 8 imm. Entebbe, 3500 ft., 21st Nov. [No. 4. R. E. £>.] 



I. Imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft.. 6th Jan. [No. 435. I,'. E. I).] 



Both these birds arc immature. I have compared an adult specimen from Wadelai 



