( xeiii ) 



the remarkable Liptenine Epitolx miranda, Stand., floating 

 dead and headless on a forest pool a noteworthy extension 

 of the range of this species. 



" Jan. 3, 1917. Ndala. 



" You will see that I have hitherto had no chance of reply- 

 inn; to the late Colonel Manders' remarks on my Pseudacraeas 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc, 1915, p. xxiii, so I am writing something 

 here. 



"Firstly — the bird question. I certainly do not agree that 

 ' the bird population on the mainland and on Bugalla is 

 practically the same.' One striking exception at once leaps 

 to my mind : — the extraordinarily greater abundance of 

 Flycatchers, of two types, on Bugalla. The most noticeable 

 of the two is the one I called ' Kunguvu ' in my Report on 

 Glossina. I think it must be a Terpsiphone [considered by 

 the authorities of the Natural History Museum to be T. 

 cristata, Gmel.]. It is red-brown with blue-black head, and 

 the cock has very long floating white tail plumes. This is 

 immensely more abundant on the islands than at Entebbe 

 on the mainland, and its ringing call was the first bird note 

 in the forests at daybreak, so that I soon got very familiar 

 with it. When, in 1 ( .)14, I visited other islands, I noted 

 that the call varied in pitch very slightly from that of the 

 Bugalla birds, and thus one is almost forced to conclude 

 that some islands have their own race of this bird, and that 

 they do not cross from mainland to islands. They are 

 retiring birds, are not seen in the open, and have the typical 

 Flycatcher habits. 



*' The other of the two is a black and white species 

 [Platystira jacJcsoni, Sharpe, according to the Natural History 

 Museum and Mr. S. A. Neavej with red fleshy protuberance 

 over the eye. Its call, totally different from the other's, I 

 also have deeply rooted in my memory, and learnt to whistle 

 it and make the bird answer. I think this bird also was more 

 abundant on the islands than at Entebbe. In 1914 I noticed 

 that the call of the birds on the group of islands I was then 

 working on was different in pitch — though really the same 

 call from that of the Bugalla birds. 



