W. K. OGILVIE-GEANT — AYES. 405 



A single egg of this species was procured at Molda from a small nest placed in the 

 iork of a low tree. The male bird was shot at the nest. 



The egg is of a regular oval form and slightly glossy. The ground-colour is creamy- 

 white with small light red and dark purplish-grey spots, which are mostly concentrated 

 in a broad zone round the larger end. It measures 'TSX'SS in. 



[This Paradise-Flycatcher was very plentiful at the south end of Ruwenzori and in the 

 Semliki Valley. It was also seen near Entebbe, but was not met with on the range. 

 It was breeding at the end of April and also in June. — E. B. IF.] 



Terpsiphone emini Reichenow. 



Tchitrea emini Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 512 (1903). 

 a. 6 . Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal, 5000 ft., 13th Sept. [No. 511. R. E. D.] 



Iris dark brown ; eyelids, bill, and feet blue. 



This male has a rather short chestnut-coloured tail, but in other respects appears to 

 be an adult bird. Both the upper- and underparts are of a brilliant orange-chestnut, 

 without any shade of brown. An immature male from Toro in Mr. Jackson's 

 collection has the underparts partially covered with new feathers of a very similar 

 orange-chestnut, but all other male specimens in that collection are of a much browner- 

 chestnut colour. 



The British Museum did not contain an example of the present species, only 

 the closely allied T. rvfiventris (Swains.) being represented. This latter resembles 

 examples of T. emi7ii in having the black occipital crest well developed, even longer, 

 and glossed with steel-blue, while in the allied species T. 7iigriceps (Hartl.) the feathers 

 on the crown are much shorter and of a purplish-black colour. T. rujiventris, moreover, 

 is easily distinguished from T. emini by having the feathers hehind the eye as well as the 

 ear-coverts chestnut instead of black, an important character which has hitherto been 

 overlooked, though Swainson partially indicated it in his plate [cf. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 53, 

 pi. iv. (1837)]. A male of T. rufiventris in the British Museum (Gambia : Sharpe coll.) 

 has the outer webs and tips of the greater and median wing-coverts as well as the outer 

 margins of the innermost secondary-quills white. From this one may infer that the 

 specimen in question is not in the fullest adult plumage. 



In the Jackson Collection there is an adult male from Entebbe, shot on the 30th of 

 May, 1904, which appears to be a hybrid between T. emini and T. suahelica. It most 

 nearly resembles T. emini, but some of the greater wing-coverts and secondaries are 

 edged externally with white and the black of the throat is continued on to the upper 

 breast, which is mixed with grey, while the rest of the underparts are bright chestnut. 

 There is a somewhat similar specimen (No. 1553) in the present collection, which 1 

 have already referred to under the heading T. suahelica. 



