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ZOOLOGICAL EESIJLTS OF THE ETJWENZOEI EXPEDITION. 



e-h. 3 S . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., 15th-19tli Jan. [Nos. 10. 



B. E. I).; 1153, 1154, 1169. D. C] 



i,k. ? et d imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., 1st .& 8th Feb. 

 [Nos. 2133. G. L.; 3153. B. B. W.] 



l-s. 6 S . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6500-7000 ft., 5th-17th Mar. [Nos. 



202. B. E. B. ; 1295, 1326, 1330, 1331. B. C. ; 2188, 2211. G. L. ; 3210. B. B. W.'\ 



Iris dark brown or dark hazel ; bill and feet black. 



The female of Jackson's Crimson-wing has not previously been described, but 

 there is a series of ten adult males and seven adult females in the present collec- 

 tion, which shows that the latter differ in coloration from the former in the following 

 particulars : — 



Males. 



Dark crimson o£ the crown extending 

 nearly to the occiput^ only the middle 

 feathers of the hind crown being grey. 



Sides of the head dark crimson and ex- 

 tending in a large patch behind the 

 eye on to the sides of the neck. 



Grey band across the hind-neck more or 

 less interrupted by the dark crimson 

 sides of the head. 



Females. 

 Hind part of the crown with the sides 



crimson, and the whole of the middle part 



grey like the hind-neck. 

 Sides of the head bright crimson and 



restricted to a large patch surrounding 



the eye, not extending on to the sides 



of the neck. 

 Grey band across the hind-neck wider and 



not interrupted. 



An immature male differs from the adult in having the head and neck entirely grey 

 without any trace of crimson. The crimson of the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 flanks is duller in tint, and the coloured tips of the feathers are much narrower, so 

 that their grey bases are visible and produce a mottled appearance. 



[This species was met with on Ruwenzori at an altitude of between 6000 and 

 8500 ft. It appeared to be a semi-forest bird, and, though it frequented the adjacent 

 millet-crops and rough grass-country, on being disturbed usually disappeared into the 

 forest. It was often met with among the undergrowth, in the darkest parts of the 

 forest, far from the outskirts. — B. B. W.~\ 



Ckyptospiza shelleyi Sharpe. 



Cryptospiza shelleyi Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. p. 21 (190.2) [Ruwenzori] ; Shelley, B. Afr. 

 iv. p. 280, pi. XXXV. fig. 3 (1905); Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 563. 



The type of this species was presented to the British Museum by Mr. F. J. Jackson. 

 A single adult male example was procured by Mr. Geoffrey Archer on the 22nd of 



