W. E. OGILVIE-GEANT— AVES. 427 



d. 



i-l. 6 ? . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., lst-17th May. [No?. 264. R. E. I). ; 

 1578. D. a ; 3323. B. B. PF.] 



■m, n. d 2 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 1st & 6th Juue. [Nos. 409, 433. 

 B. K D.] 



Iris slate-colour (November), orange, yellow, or greenish-yellow (January, May, 

 and June) ; bill dark gi'ey, culmen and lower mandible whitish ; feet coral-red or 

 scarlet. 



This species was breeding at Mokia in January. 



[Shelley's Coly was plentiful on the plains all around Ruwenzori, and was also met 

 with on the mountains up to the altitude where the forest-line commences, but 

 not higher. Unlike C. macrurus, this species usually frequents the lower bushes, 

 especially those overgrown with a tangled mass of creepers. It is usually to be seen 

 in small Hocks. Often on the approach of danger, instead of at once taking to flight, 

 all the birds disappear into the bush after the manner of rats or squirrels rather than 

 birds. If the bush is beaten, they eventually come hurrying out, and, with a great 

 whirring of wings, fly off chattering to some adjacent thick bush, into which they at once 

 disappear headlong, — B. B. IF.] 



COLIUS MACKURUS (Linn.). 



Colius macrourus Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 210 (1902). 



CoUus macrurus Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 522 [Toro] ; Selater in Wytsmau's Gen. Av., Picarise, 

 pt. vi. Coliida;, p. 4 (1906). 

 a-cL d ? . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 2nd-25th June. [Nos. 1622, 1689. 

 I), a ; 3441, 3464. B. B. W.] ^^ 



e-l. d ? . Mokia. S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 2nd-7th July. [Nos. 473. B. E. I). ; 



1715, 1723. I). C. ; 2412, 2413, 2414, 2415. G. X.] 



Iris dark red or dark brown (in one, violet) ; eyelid scarlet ; bill black, base of the 

 upper mandible and cere pink ; feet pink, dull red, or dark mauve. 



[A few Long-tailed Colies were seen among the acacias on the plains at the S.E. of 

 Ruwenzori, but there they were comparatively rare birds ; while further round the 

 mountains on the S.W., in an exactly similar kind of acacia-country, they were very 

 numerous. They were seen always in small flocks of six or eight individuals, and 

 were usually to be found among the taller trees. Their note, which is quite different 

 from that of C. affinis, is a long-drawn clear whistle, but is not very loud, and is 

 uttered when flying from the top of one tree to another. — B. B. W.'] 



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