156 Dr. R. Bowdler Sluirpe on Birds 



rather darker slaty grey; throat, eentre of breast, and abdo- 

 men white, M'ith a tinge of rnfous ; across the fore neck a 

 broad band of black ; sides of neck and sides of npper breast 

 grey ; sides of body and flanks bright ferrnginous ; thighs 

 ashy with reddish margins to the feathers ; nnder tail-coverts 

 white; nnder wing-eoverts and axiUaries white; quills below 

 dusky, whitish along the inner edge. Total length 5*5 inches, 

 culnien 0*7, wing 2"25, tail S'S, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 5"2 inches, culmen O'G, wiug 2"1, tail 2'1, tarsus 0*9. 



No. 295 is apparently a younger male. It has the black 

 chest-band washed with ashy, and has scarcely any rufous 

 tinge on the throat. 



121. DiiYoniioMAS JACKSONI. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 

 Apnlis jacksuni, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 119. 



No. 2:)(). ? ad. ]\lount Elgon, Feb. 2;5, 1890. — Irides brown ; 



bill black; legs pale fiesh-colour. First seen to-day, in 



thick forest. 

 No. 297. S '«!• Mount Elgon, Feb. 23, 1890.— Irides brown ; 



legs flesh-colour; bill black. 

 Adidt female. Differs from the male in being rather duller 

 in colour, and in having the throat ashy grey instead of 

 black ; the sides of face and ear-coverts are also ashy grey. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*4'5, wung 2'11, tail 2\2, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



122. ClSTICOLA EUYTUKOGENYS. 



Cist'icola erythrogenys, Riipp. ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Ucuov. (2) i. p. 148 (1884; Shoa) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. 



Urn. i. p. 314 (1884<; Naiwascha; Great Aruscha) ; id. J. f. 



O. 1885, p. 140. 



No. 70. ? . Sotik, Oct. 2, 1889. — Legs flesh-colour; irides 

 brown. Saw several, and found nest of one, but it con- 

 tained no eggs. 



Nos. 339, 340. ? . Kimangitchi, ]\ Fount Elgon, Feb. 28, 

 1890. — Irides bright brown; legs fiesh-colour; upper 

 mandible brownish black, lower whitish horn-colour. 



No. 340. S ■ Kimangitchi, Feb. 28, 1890. 



