332 ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE EUWENZOEI EXPEDITION. 



e'. 2 . Butagu Valley, W. Euwenzori, 7000 ft., 1st Aug. [No. 1765. D. C] 



Adult luale and female. Iris dark brown or dark hazel ; bill and feet black. 



As neither Captain Shelley nor Dr. Reichenow gives a description of the female of 

 this fine Sun-bird, I take this opportunity of doing so. 



Adult female. General colour above greyish-olive, the feathers of the crovrn with 

 dusky middles ; superciliary stripes, cheeks, and underparts pale olive, washed with 

 yellow on the middle of the abdomen ; wings greyish-black, both the quills and 

 coverts margined on the outer web with tawny olive ; under wing-coverts white 

 tinged with yellow ; axillaries and edge of shoulder pale yellow ; tail-feathers black. 

 Wing 1-9-1-95 inch ; tail 1-4. 



The large series of thirty specimens includes three immature males moulting into 

 the adult plumage ; two of these were procured on the 11th and 15th of January 

 respectively, and a third was killed on the 12th of March. 



[The Red-breasted Wedge-tailed Sun-bird is found on Ruwenzori from an elevation 

 of 6000 to 10,000 ft. ; but it is most numerous in the forest-zone between 7000 and 

 8500 ft. The male sings a short sparkling song, which one is often surprised to hear 

 in the darkness of the forest and in the mist at 10,000 ft. 



At present this species is known only from Ruwenzori ; but, although no specimen 

 was obtained, Mr. Carruthers assures me that he saw and heard it among the bamboo- 

 forests at 8000 ft. on the Mufumbiro Volcanoes, which lie to the south of Lake Edward. 

 There, it may be noted, he obtained a specimen of Tarsiger ruwenzori, a species 

 previously known only from Ruwenzori. — B. B. iPF.] 



Family D i c ^ i D iE. 



Pholidoknis denti Grant. (Plate XIII. fig. 1, 6 .) 

 Pholidomis denti Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 41 (1907). 

 a,h. 6 ^. Avakubi, E. Congo Forest, 2500 ft., 31st Oct. [Nos. 578, 579. B. E. B. 

 Types of the species^ 



This fine new species is most nearly allied toP.n<s/w«(Cass.), but is easily distinguished 

 by having the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, as well as the lower breast, 

 belly, and under tail-coverts, of a much brighter yellow ; and the feathers of the 

 mantle, wing-coverts, and scapulars with conspicuous pale sandy margins. As in 

 P. bedfordi Grant, the outer margins of the quills are uniform black and not edged 

 with olive, as in P. rusJiice. Iris crimson in the male, grey in the female ; upper 

 mandible black, lower mandible yellow with the tip black ; feet yellow. 



Male. Total length ca. 3'1 inches; wing 1*9 ; tail 0*95; tarsus 0'51. 



Female. „ 3-2 „ ; „ 1-9; „ 1-0; „ 0-52. 



The male is marked by Mr. Dent as " breeding." 



