382 Mr. V, G. L. van Somereu on Birds 



Platysteira cyanea nyanzae. 



Platysteira cyanea nyansce Neumann, J. Ornith. 1905, 

 p. 210: Bukoba, Uganda. 



c? 1-5. 3. ii. 09 ; 4. v. 12 ; 21. vii. 09 ; 21. vii. 09. 



Imm. (J & ?. 21.ii.l2; 4. v. 12. 



? 1-6. 4.V. 12; 18.x. 10; 3.iii.09; 5. vii. 09. 



Nestlings. 3.iii.09. 



These birds are found in the forests, frequenting the 

 undergrowth. Their call is a series of loud clear whistles. 



They nest in April, June, and also in November and 

 December. The nest is a small cup-shaped structure, placed 

 in a fork of a low tree. It is composed of fibres and 

 spiders' webs, and adorned on the outside with lichen. 

 The eggs, two in number, are creamy or pale olive-brown, 

 with brown and purplish spots, the latter not well-defined ; 

 the spotting is most numerous at the obtuse end. 



The nestlings are covered with soft woolly feathers of 

 a blackish-grey colour with ochraceous tips. The under 

 surface is white. As the young grow older they assume the 

 intermediate plumage, which is very like that of the female, 

 but the throat and crop-band are pale brown. If the bird 

 be a male tlie brown is gradually replaced by white feathers 

 on the throat and black on the crop ; if a female, these 

 parts become a darker brown. The upper surface changes 

 to dark grey. 



Localities. Jinja, Hoima, Sanga, Kyetema, and Mabira, 

 in Uganda. 



Diaphoraphyia castanea. 



J 1-5. 9.xii. 14; 6.ix. 13; 8. x. 14 ; 5.x. 14; 5. x. 14. 



? 1-5. 16. V. 12 ; 13. xii. 11 ; 3. xi. 13 ; 5. x. 14; 11. v. 14. 



These are noisy birds when disturbed ; they have a clear 

 shrill whistle when alarmed, and have a habit of beating the 

 wings together and making a clicking noise. They keep to 

 the forest undergrowth. They were breeding in May. 



Localities. Mubango, Mabira, Kyetema, and Nazigo, in 

 Uganda. 



