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examples from Lake Zwai in Januar^^, Lake Ptudolf in July, 

 Lake Bakate ia September, and Addis Alara in November. 



As so often happens with birds of this group,, Zaphiro 

 appears to have made mistakes in ascertaining the sex of 

 several of the specimens collected. 



2L'2. BatIS SENEGALENSIS. 



Bails senegalensis (Linn.) ; Reich, ii. p. 4S0 (1903). 



A specimen marked as a male and which is no doubt 

 immature, is similar to the female of B. senegalensis 

 as regards the coloration of the uuderparts, having the same 

 wide light chestnut breast-band ; but the crown and back 

 are dark slate-grey, instead of brov.'u washed with rufous, 

 and the rufous eyebroiv stripe is entirely wanting, only a 

 sliort whitish supra-loral streak from the base of the bill to 

 the eye being present. That the sex has been correctly 

 ascertained as male is suggested by the presence of several 

 partially black feathers on the right side of the breast indi- 

 cating the black pectoral band of the adult. It is possible, 

 nay even probable, that this immature specimen may 

 represent an undescribed subspecies, for there is no reason 

 to suppose tliat the immature male of B. senegalensis has a 

 grey head, and the species has never been recorded from 

 Abyssinia. INlore material is required to settle this point. 



Batis poensis Alexander. 



Batis poensis Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 31 (1903). 



I may here remark that two adult male and female 

 examples of this distinct little Flycatcher were procured by 

 Mr. Willoughby F. Lowe at Sekondi, Gold Coast, but were 

 wrongly identified as Batis senegalensis (cf. Bannerman, 

 'Ibis,' 1912, p. 22G). It is important to mention this us the 

 occurrence of this insular species on the Gold Coast is of 

 interest. 



2]3. TCHITKEA VIRIUIS. 



Tchitrea viridis (Mull.) ; Reich, ii. p. 504 (1903). 



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