326 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE EITWENZORI EXPEDITION. 



e-k. d S . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., lst-28th May. [Nos. 389. R. E. D. ; 



1499, 1543. B. C. ; 2311, 2316. G. L. ; 3328. B. B. W.] 



I, m. cJ ? . Mokia, S.E. Paiwenzori, 8400 ft., 4th-16th June. [Nos. 3453, 3491. 



B. B. W.] 



n. 6 imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 6th July. [No. 1721. B. C] 



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



Specimen 3053 is marked as being a male, but has every appearance of being a 

 female in worn plumage with some freshly moulted feathers on the back and chest. 



Two eggs taken by Mr. Woosnam (with the female specimen No. 3453) are of a 

 rather blunt-pointed oval shape and devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is pale 

 yellowish-white, obscurely clouded and smeared with grey, sparingly marked with 

 rounded spots and short irregular streaks of brownish-black. They measure respectively 

 •r)8x-52 and -66 X "5 in. 



An egg in the British Museum referred to this species and taken at Witu was 

 received with the Crowley Bequest. It is much smaller than those collected by 

 Mr. Woosnam and measures 'Ql X "41 in., and is also differently marked. It, however, 

 agrees with the description and measurements of eggs of C. cujjreus given by Nehrkorn 

 [cf. Kat. Eier Samml. p. 76 (1899)]. 



[The Common Copper-coloured Sun-bird was seen near Entebbe and on the plains 

 around the E. and S.W. of Ruwenzori, but it was not met with on the mountains. 

 A nest found on the 5th of June was suspended from the bough of an acacia-tree about 

 5 ft. from the ground ; it was composed of fine grass and the down of plants and 

 contained two eggs. — B. B. W.'\ 



CiNNYRIS SUPEEBUS (Shaw). 



Cinnyris superbus Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 41 (1900) ; Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 477 (1905). 



d. 

 a-c. d 2 . Ft. Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 21st July. [Nos. 484, 485. B.E. D. ; 



3507. B. B. W.] 



d. d . Avakubi, E. Congo Forest, 2500 ft., 31st Oct. [No. 3652. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 



[The Superb Sun-bird was not uncommon around Fort Beni on the eastern edge of 

 the Eturi Forest, and was met with sparingly in the clearings in the forest between 

 Fort Beni and Mawambi. It was not observed in the forest near Irumu. — B. B. W.'\ 



Cinnyris mariquensis Smith. 



Cinnyris mariquensis Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 51 (1900) ; Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 479 (1905). 



Cinnyris mariquensis suahelicus Reich. 1. c. 



Cinnyris osiris Shelley, 1. c. p. 53 [part.] . 

 a. 6 . 100 miles W. of Entebbe, 4100 ft. [No. 1044. I). C] 



