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



and if one is wounded the rest fly at it and peck it, all the 

 time uttering loud cries. They are very vicious and bold 

 at such times, and svroop down when one goes to pick the 

 fallen bird up. 



Young birds in first plumage have been shot in October. 

 These birds can easily be distinguished from S. r. tricolor by 

 the absence of white on the primaries, though a specimen 

 in the Tring Museum has a white spot on the inner web of 

 the third primary. 



Locality. Kyambu, iu British East Africa. 



Nilaus massaicus. 



Nilaus afer massaicus Neumann, J. f . Ornith. 1907, p. 363 : 

 Donje Erok, German East Africa. 



(J & ? . 21.xii. 11 ; 17.V. 10. 



Both these birds agree with typical N. massaicus. They 

 have a continuous^ broad, pale chestnut band running from 

 the breast-feathers covering the shoulders to the end of the 

 flanks. This band does not meet over the breast. The 

 bands on the wings are white. 



These birds inhabit the bush-country. 



Localities. Busoga, Unyoro, and Toro, in Uganda. 



Nilaus erythreae. 



Nilaus afer erythrea Neumann, J. f. Ornith. 1907, p. 361 : 

 Eritrea. 



(J. 22.iii.12; 9. vii. 12. 



I have studied the series in the Tring Museum, and have 

 had to refer these two specimens to N. erythrea. In this 

 species the wing-line is buff, while the band on the flanks is 

 very dark chestnut and broken — not continuous. 



Localities. Jiuja and Toro, in Uganda. 



Pomatorhynchus australis emini. 

 S 1-3. 6.xi.l0; 14.x. 13; 30. viii. 12. 

 ? 2. 6.xi. 10; ?.09. 



I cannot see any difference between T. emini and minor. 

 Young birds are washed with greyish buff" on the underside, 



