collected in Uganda and British East Africa. 203 



birrls do not have the silky yellow feathers of the crop well 

 developed. The sexes are alike. Nests and eggs have been 

 taken in June, from the shallow reed-beds at the lake-side. 

 The eggs are a bright or dark ochraceous ground-colour, 

 with numerous streaks and vermiculations in black; they 

 are glossy and very pointed at one end. 



Localities. Jinja, Kibanga, and Toro, in Uganda. 



Limnocorax niger. 



cT. 9.x. 10. 



? 1-3. 14.iv.09; 4.vii.06; 9. x. 10. 



Common in the reed-beds of rivers, lakes, and swamps. 

 We have taken their eggs in February, March, and June. 

 Nestlings are black with delicate flesh-pink bills with black 

 tips, the legs are fleshy-brown. 



A bird shot in April is moulting from the second to fully 

 adult plumage. 



Localities. Toro, in Uganda; Nairobi, in British East 

 Africa. 



Sarothrura pulchra centralis. 



Sarothrura pulchra centralis Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxi. 1908, p. 45 : west of Lake Albert. 



cJl-9; 14 imm. 2.ix. 13; 3.ix.l3; 27. ix. 13 ; 

 8.xii.l4; 17.i.l4; 6.xi.l4; 14.x. 13; 6.xi.l3; 14.x. 13. 



? 1-4; 2 imm. 6.xi. 14; 3.ix. 13; 6.xi.l4; 3.ix. 13. 



This large series includes young of both sexes. The 

 youngest bird is very like a female in coloration, but is 

 duller in every way, and the barring of the upper and 

 under surfaces much closer ; the brown feathers of the 

 head, neck, and breast are tipped with blackish brown ; 

 the tail is chestnut barred with black. Young males of 

 the same age are lighter below than females, and have the 

 feathers of the back and wings spotted with rusty or whitish 

 as well as being tipped with rusty. 



Very young birds were shot in September, and moulting 

 birds in October. 



Localities. Mabira and Kyetema Forests, in Uganda. 



