348 ZOOLOGICAIi EBSULTS OF THE EUWENZOEI EXPEDITIO]!^. 



CiSTicoLA EETTHROPS (HartL). (Plate XIX. fig. 11, egg.) 



Cisticola erythrops Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 568 (1905) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 317 

 [Cameroon]. 

 n. 6 . 80 miles W. of Entebbe, 3800 ft., 2nd Dec. [No. 3022. B. B. TF.] 

 h. 6. 160 miles W. of Entebbe, 5000 ft., 12th Dec. ['No. 1057. B. C] 



c. 2 . Fort Portal, 5000 ft., 28th Sept. [No. 3518. B.B. W.] 



d. 2 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000 ft., 31st Dec. [No. 1077. B. C] 

 e,f. d $. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 28th April. [Nos. 3286, 3287. B. 



B. W.] 



g~p. s ? . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 3rd-25th May. [Nos. 354. B. E. B. ; 



1483, 1528, 1595. B. C. ■ 2332, 2388. G. L. ; 3310, 3314. 3413. B. B. W.] 



q, r. d . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 3rd & 4th June. [Nos. 421. B. E. B. ; 



3454. B. B. TF.] 



s. 6 . Butagu Valley, W. Ruwenzori, 4000 ft., 30th July. [No. 2440. G. L.] 



Iris pale brown, hazel, or olive-brown ; upper mandible black, lower whitish or 

 blue-grey ; feet pale brown or flesh-colour. 



A pair of birds killed on the 28th of April (Nos. 3286 and 3287) had a nest with four 

 eggs, which may be described as follows : — Of a regular oval shape and distinctly 

 glossy. The ground-colour pale greenish-blue, spotted and blotched, especially round 

 the larger end where the markings form a zone, with light red and purplish-grey. 

 The four eggs measure respectively •69x"51, •70X'52, •70X'53, •71X"53 in. 



The nest, which was placed in a low bush about three feet from the ground, was 

 formed by fastening three leaves together ; it was not domed, but lined with fine grass 

 and the down of plants. It contained four slightly incubated eggs. 



[The BuflF-breasted Grass-Warbler was seen near Entebbe and throughout the 

 journey to Ruwenzori. It was plentiful on the plains all round the mountains, but was 

 never met with above 5000 ft. It seems chiefly to frequent the small water-courses 

 and streams and the edges of swamps. — B. B. W.'\ 



Cisticola lateralis (Eraser). 



Cisticola lateralis Reicli. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 562 (1905). 

 a. 6 . Lower Semliki Valley, 2000 ft., 10th Oct. [No. 3623. B. B. W.] 



Iris light hazel ; bill dark horn-colour ; feet light brown. 



[This Grass-Warbler was met with at the extreme north end of Ruwenzori on the 

 spurs projecting into the Semliki Valley near Lake Albert, and also among the acacia- 

 country in the Semliki Valley N.W. of the range. In the field it could be at once 

 distinguished from C. cimlhi — which it resembled in appearance — by its pleasant song, 

 which is composed of loud clear notes, quite unlike that of any other species of Cisticola 



