W. E. OGILVIE-GEANT— AYES. 421 



The note is loud and shrill, totally unlike that of Turacus emini, which has a low- 

 toned musical " curung curung " repeated over and over again. 



Although chiefly to be met with in the Podocarpus trees, birds might now and then 

 be seen perched on the end of a long bamboo. Like its ally, T. emini, it was far more 

 often heard than seen, and it was some weeks before we identified the shrill laugh so 

 often heard among the bamboos as the voice of Johnston's Touraco. — R. B. W-^ 



Turacus emini Reich enow. 



Turacus emini Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 50, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1902) ; Dubois, Ann. ]\Ius. Congo, 



Zool. (4.) i. fasc. i. p. 4, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1905) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 523 [Ruwenzori]. 

 Turacus schiUti endni Neumann, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 375 (1908). 



n. 2 . Mpanga Forest, Fort Portal, 5000 ft., 21st Sept. [No. 3593. R. B. W.'\ 

 h. d . Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori, 9000 ft., 9th Jan. [No. 1126. I). C] 



d. d. 



c-l. d ? . „ „ 8000 ft., 2nd-25th Feb. [Nos. 1228, 1229, 



d. d. 



1230, 1231. D. C; 2139, 2158, 2159, 2165, 2175. G. i.] 



m. S imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Euwenzori, 9000 ft., 1st March. [No. 1280. B. C] 

 n. 6 . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 22nd July. [No. 1738. B. C] 



Iris dark brown; eyelid vermilion; bill black, base of the lower mandible dark red ; 

 feet black. 



[The forest in the central part of the Semliki Valley on the west of Ruwenzori is 

 undoubtedly the headquarters of Emin's Touraco, and there it was extremely numerous. 

 It was seen throughout the eastern parts of the forest, and westwards as far as 

 Basoko, and was not uncommon in the Mpanga Forest. 



On Ruwenzori it was fairly common throughout the forest-zone, and was seen 

 up to an altitude of about 9000 ft., but above this its place was taken by Gallire-v 

 johnsfoni. The Touracos run so fast and so nimbly along the boughs of the trees 

 that they appear more like squirrels than birds. They were always difficult birds to 

 procure, and were far more often heard than seen. — R. B. W-l 



Family C u c u L i D ^. 

 Centeopus occidentalis Neumann. 



Cenirojms monachus Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 528 [Toro] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 439 



[Cameroon] . 

 Centropus monachus occidentalls Neumann, Bull. B.O.C. xsi. p. 77 (1908) [Ogowe Ft.]. 



a. d . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., 4th April. [No. 2271. G. L.] 



b. 2 . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 20th July. [No. 2416. G. L.] 



Both these examples belong to the darker-backed southern form with brown inner 

 secondaries, which has very properly been separated by Prof. Neumann from C. monachus 

 Riipp., from Abyssinia. 



