NOTES ON EAST AFIUCAN BIUUS. 899 



44. Notes on East African Birds (chiefly nestintr habits 

 and eado-parasites) collected 1920-1923. By Arthur 

 L0VERIDC4E, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S. 



[Received August U, 1923 : Read November 6, 1023.] 



The collecfcion for which the birds mentioned in this paper 

 were shot consists of 1558 skins representing 57 of the 63 

 families of East African birds, 311 of 398 genera and 701 species. 

 Only 150 eggs were taken in the period covered by this paper. 



As before*, a few notes on some of the European migrant;-? 

 hav'e been included, but with tliis exception simple records are 

 avoided, tliough many rarities such as Gossyj)ha albigvlaris Rchw., 

 Callene sharpei Shell., and Turdinas stictigula Rchw. were 

 collected. 



J)r. Ilartertf lias described the following species and races 

 from the present material : — Cinnyris loveridr/ei, Arizelocichla 

 neumanni, Eremomela JIaviventris' tardinata, Turdus 07iUanje?isis 

 idiujiiru, Lioptilus stierlingi uluguru, and Saxicola torquala 

 'promisciia ; and Dr. Neumann J, Anihreptes longuemarei neglecttis. 



My grateful thanks are dne to Dr. liarterfc and Mr. Arthur 

 Goorison for going through a great deal of the collection and 

 making the necessary determinations. To Dr. Baylis also for 

 much kindness shown in the identification of the pai-asitic worms 

 mentioned in the following pages. 



The only locn.lities outside Tanganyika Territory referred to are 

 Frere Town and Nairobi. As difficulty may be found in locating 

 some of the other places (English and nob Gerinan spelling of 

 pln.ce-names is given), I have arranged them according to their 

 districts and as far as possible from east to west arid south to 

 north, i. e. working from the Central Railway. 



Dar es Salaam District. — Dar es Salaam, Pugu. 



Morogoro District. — Bngilo, Morogoro, Mkindo River, Wami 



River, Mkata River, Tindiga, Kimamba, Ilonga., Kipera, 



Mn.dazini, Kilosa. 

 Dodoma District. — Dodoma, Kilamatinde, Mahaka, Mbonoa, 



Ndogwe, Suna, Mbnlu's, Mdjengo's, 

 Kondoa-Irangi District. — Mtali's, Zengeragusu, Usshora, Ulugn. 

 Tabora District. — Tabora, Izikisin., Ndala, Simbo, Tambali, 



Luguo, Wembere Flats. 

 Mwanza District. — Mwadira, Shanwa, Sagayo. 



I witnessed an interesting display of curiosity exhibited by 

 birds at the sight of tortoises. A cnge containing tortoises was 



* Lovei-idge, P. Z. S. 1922, pp. 837-862 : " Notes oii East African Birds collected 

 1915-19." 

 t Hartevt, Bull. Brit. Ornitli. Club, xlii. p. 49 ; xliii. p. 149 ; xliv. p. 6, 1923. 

 X Neumann, Sonderabdruck aus Ornithologische Men. xxx. p. 1 (1922). 



