444 ZOOLOGICAL EESULTS OP THE EUWENZOEI EXPEDITION. 



Sakcidiornis melanonota (Pennant). 



Sarlddiornis melanotus Pteich. Vog. Afr. i. p. 129 (1900). 



a. 2 . Fort Portal, Uganda, 5000 ft., 1st July. [No. 3497. R. B. W.] 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet grey. 



[A flock of about twenty examples of this Comb-Duck was seen on a small crater- 

 lake near Fort Portal. This was the only occasion upon which they were met with. — 

 R B. W.] 



Family O Ti D ID^. 



LiSSOTIS MELANOG ASTER (Riipp.). 



Otis nielanoffaster- Reich. Vog. Afr. i. p. 256 (1900) [part.]. 



Lissotis melanogastra Oberholserj Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. p. 836 (1905). 



Lissotis lovati Grant, Ibis, 1902, p. 453, pi. xi. & text-fig. 10. 



a, b. d 2. 12 miles W. of Entebbe, 3500 ft., 24th Nov. [Nos. 1009. B. C. ■ 

 3003. B. B. W.] 



When separating the southern black-winged form of Lissotis from the Abyssinian 

 species,!/, melanogaster (Riipp.), by an unfortunate oversight I renamed the Abyssinian 

 bird L. lovati. This mistake was pointed out by Mr. Oberholser, who has now named 

 the southern black-winged form L. iiotophila. 



[A few examples of the White-winged Bustard were met with on the plains around 

 the south end of Ruwenzori, but they were rather uncommon. A pair was also seen 

 near Entebbe.— i?. B. IV.] 



Family (E d i c n E m i d .-e. 



CEdicnemus vermiculatus Cabanis. (Plate XIX. fig. 17, egg.) 

 Qidicnemus vermiculatus Reicli. Vog. Afr. i. p. 200 (1900). 



a,b. d ?. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft, 26th May. [Nos. 3418, 3419. 

 B. B. W.] 



Iris pale yellow, speckled with brown ; bill black, yellow at the base ; feet pale 

 dirty yellow. 



An egg of this species procured by Mr. Woosnam is much like that of (E. oedicnenms 

 (L.). It is of a slightly pointed oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. The ground- 

 colour is pale buff, heavily blotched and spotted with dark brown markings, vi'hichform 

 a partial ring round the larger end, and there are underlying small spots of lilac-grey. 

 It measures l-8xl'32 inch, 



[A few examples of the Vermiculated Thick-knee were met with on the plains 

 around the south end of Ruwenzori, and a nest containing a single eij:g was found 

 among the gravel on the shores of a small salt-lake at Kikerongo, S.E. Ruwenzori. — 

 B. B. W.] 



