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Iris brown or olive-brown ; bill brown ; feet grey, dark grey, or greyish-brown. 



I am not quite satisfied about the identification of these birds. P. cahanisi was 

 founded by Dr. Sharpe on a description given by Cabanis of a Bulbul from Angola 

 allied to P. icterinus {tricolor) : consequently there is no type-specimen. 



There are three examples named P. cahanisi in the British Museum : one from the 

 Benito Kiver and two from South Cameroon. If these long-billed specimens with 

 strong rictal bristles are correctly identified, they are certainly not very nearly allied 

 to the present species or to P. placidus (Shelley), both of which are considered to be 

 subspecies of P. cahanisi by Dr. Eeichenow, The Mpanga birds are evidently nearly 

 allied to P. placidus, but are paler and more olive above, and much yellower on the 

 underparts. 



A single specimen of this Bulbul was killed on Ruvvenzori at 9000 ft., in the upper 

 part of the forest-belt, and a few examples were met with in the Mpanga Forest. 

 They were usually met with in the undergrowth or low down in the trees. — JR. B. W.] 



Phyllastkephus icterinus (Bonap.). 



Phyllastrephus icterinus Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 402 (1904). 



Bleda tricolor Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 461 [Cameroon]. 



Criniger icterina Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 304 [Kasongo, Upper Congo]. 



a,h. d S . Nr. Mawambi, E. Congo Forest, 3000 fr.., 16th Oct. [Nos. 570. 

 E. K D. ; 3629. B. B. W.'] 



(S . Iris grey ; bill dusky ; feet slate-colour. 

 S . Iris, bill, and feet brown. 



[The Yellow-breasted Bulbul was not uncommon in the Congo Forest, but we did 

 not find it in the Mpanga Forest to the east of Ruwenzori. — R. B. WJ] 



IxoNOTUS GUTTATUS Verr. 



Ixonotus guttatus Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 416 (1904) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 463 ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1908, p. 302 [Ponthierville, Upper Congo]. 



a. 6 . Mawambi, E. Congo Forest, 3000 ft., 29th Oct. [No. 3645. B. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill brown ; feet dark grey. 



As already observed in my paper on Mr. Carruthers' collection, this species was, so 

 far as I am aware, hitherto known only from West Africa. 



[This Spotted Bulbul was one of the few birds we obtained out of the tops of the 

 tall trees in the Congo Forest. It was the only example of the species procured. 

 The ordinary •410-bore collecting-gun was almost useless among the taU tree-tops of 

 the Congo Forest and it was always a great surprise when a bird was shot — 

 B. B. W.'\ 



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