292 Capt. G. E. Shelley on 



10. LOPHOCEROS MELANOLEUCUS (Licllt.) . 



c? . Lamu. Irides light brown; legs black. 

 Very conimon in Taveita. 



11. COCCYSTES JACOBINUS (Bodd.). 



¥ (24. 1. 87) . Plentiful. Shot between Taveita and Kake. 



12. Tersiphone cristata (Gm.). 



6. Taveita. Irides brown; eyelids and legs light slaty 

 blue. 



13. Erithacus gutturalis (Guer.). 



S . Irides brown ; bill and legs black. Stomach contained 

 insects. Shot between Taveita and Kake. 



14-. Erythropygia leucoptera (Eiipp.). 

 S . Laogora. 



Irides brown. Stomach contained small beetles. The 

 only one I saw. Shot in thick bush. 



15. Dryoscopus cubla (Shaw), 

 d. Taveita (26. 1.87). 

 Common in Taveita. 



16. IMOTACILLA VIDUA, Suild. 



Shot inside the camp compound at Taveita. 



17.^ Philet/Erus cabanisi. (Plate VI.) 



Nigrita cabanisi, Fisch. et Reicheu. J. f. O. 1884;, p. 54. 



Philetcerus cabanisi, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p, 308. 



cJ ? . Bill white, base of lower mandible tinged with 

 yellowish green ; legs brownish flesh-colour ; irides crimson. 

 Only seen in one place in the bush on the slopes of the 

 Sogouvi Mountains. Here I found a small colony building 

 their nests in a table-topped mimosa tree in March 1887. 



[Of this fine species, which is new to the collection of the 

 British Museum, Mr. Jackson has brought a male and two 

 females, obtained in the Kilima-njaro district in March 1887. 

 — G. E. S.] 



18. Vidua FiscHEBi, Reichen. 



(S . Shot in the Arusha-wa-chini country, in February 1887. 

 I saw another specimen, but being after big game at the time, 

 1 could not shoot it. 



