378 Mr. V. G. L. van Someren on Birds 



speckled with fine reddish-brown and liver-coloured spots, 

 mostly toward the larger end. 



The birds were fairly tame. They frequent the more 

 open forests. 



Locality. Chambnra River, Uganda. 



Alseonax infalatus. 



(? 1 and ? 2. 2. x. 10 ; 15. vii. 12 ; 14. vii. 12 ; 20. xii. 12. 



Quite a common species. We found these birds numerous 

 along the papyrus swamp at Kisumu, where a pair was 

 nesting in an old weaver-bird's nest ; they had young just 

 ready to leave the nest. They also nest in crevices in trees. 



Young birds are heavily mottled above, but below the 

 mottling is confined to the breast, the throat and abdomen 

 being white as in adults or with faint black tips to the 

 feathers. 



Localities. Mjanji and Kikoma, in Uganda; Kisumu, in 

 British East Africa. 



Alseonax murinus pumilus. 



c? 1-3. 28.i.l2; 28.x. 12; 15.V.12. 

 ? 1-3. 12. V. 12; 28.x. 12 ; 28. i. 12. 



Fairly common in the more open forests. They are 

 remarkably tame, allowing one to approach to within a few 

 feet. They build a small open nest of rootlets and grass- 

 fibres. The eggs are very small, of an olive-white ground- 

 colour^ spotted with red-brown. Two or three are laid. 

 The young are heavily mottled above and below. The nests 

 have been found in May and July, and in December and 

 January. Young in first plumage were taken in September. 



Localities. Kyetema and Mabira Forest, in Uganda. 



Alseonax brevicauda. 



Muscicapa brevicauda O. -Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xix. 1907, 

 p. 107 : Yambuya, Belgian Congo. 



(?l-2; imm. 1-2. 19. xii. 12 : 8. xii. 14 ; 5.x. 14; 

 20.x. 14; 1.x. 14. 



?. 20.x. 14; 7.x. 14. 



Met with in pairs in the open forest. Young birds in 

 first plumage were shot in October. They are heavily 

 spotted with pale ochraceous from crown to rump, the 



