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on the Athi Eiver, B.E. Africa, which is in a remarkable stage of plumage and unlike 

 that of any other specimen which I have examined. The sides and flanks are pale 

 sandy, heavily streaked with black shaft-stripes, and the yellow on the underparts 

 is restricted to the middle of the breast and belly. The bird is probably a female 

 attaining its first adult j)lumage, many of the feathers being only partly grown, but the 

 light colour of the sides and flanks is peculiar, though probably only individual. 



Through the kindness of Count Salvadori and of Mr. Walter Rothschild I have been 

 able to compare the type-specimen of Macronyx ascensi Salvadori [of. Ball. Mus. Tor. 

 xxu. no. 570 (1907)], from Lake Meru, with a typical specimen of M. fidlehorni 

 Reichenow, from Ngomingi, Uhehe Coimtry (Marwitz), sent to the Tring Museum by 

 Dr. Reich enow ; also with two specimens oi Macronyx procured in Angola respectively 

 by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in July and by Mr. C. H. Pemberton in December. These latter 

 agree exactly with the type of M. ascensi, and though they are slightly brighter yellow 

 on the breast and greyer on the rump than the typical specimen of M. fuUehorni, I 

 think it highly probable that all should be included under the latter heading. The 

 typical specimen of M.fullelorni, which was killed in the month of August, is in partly 

 worn plumage, but the feathers of back and rump have been recently moulted, which 

 may account for their browner colour. 



[The Yellow-throated Long-claw was plentiful from Entebbe to Ruwenzori and on 

 tlie plains all round the mountains below 5000 ft. — B. £. W.] 



Family N E c T A E i N 1 1 D ^. 



NeCTAKINIA EK.YTHROCEKCA Heugl. 



Cinnyris erythrocerius Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 49 (1900). 



Nectarinia erythrocerca Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 493 (1905) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 556 



[Toro]. 

 Nectarinia erythroceria Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 282 [Lake Edward]. 



a,b. 6 ^. 60 miles W. of Entebbe, 3700 ft., 29th Nov. [Nos. 3013, 3014. 

 I{. JB. W.'] 



c-e. 6. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 24th-28th June. [Nos. 1679,1700, 



1701. D. C] 



Adult male and female. Iris dark brown; bill and feet black. 



As already recorded, in my paper on the " Birds collected in Uganda and the Upper 

 Congo," this species was procured by Mr. Carruthers a little to the north of Lake 

 Edward, which is probably the most southerly and westerly point from which it has 

 been obtained. 



In the four males mentioned above the colour of the upper taii-coverts varies con- 

 siderably. Nos. 3013 and 1700, from Entebbe and S.E. Ruwenzori respectively, have 



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