1894.] JOURNAL OF THE LATE DR. EMIN PASHA. 599 



" No. 1819. Diaplwrophyia castanea, Eras., $ . Common. 



" No. 1820. Halcyon seneyalensis, L. Common. 



"No. 1821. Agapomis, $ . This species, never before met with, 

 is very near to, if not identical with, the Liberian A. swindemianct, 

 with which it convenes in general colour, black stripe on the 

 neck, and size. I can, however, not remember if the Liberian bird 

 has likewise the orange-brown broad belt below the black of the 

 neck. Iris pale yellow ; feet olive-greenish ; bill dark plumbeous, 

 the under mandible paler. In flocks from 3 to 4 these birds may be 

 seen and heard at morning and evening time, when leaving the 

 trees they roost in and returning to them ; their shrill twitter is 

 at those times most loudly heard. During the morning they 

 frequent with predilection the new ripening sesame and the rice- 

 fields, and are often on the soil, where they move quickly enough. 

 They are great friends of w T ater, and the Manyuema tell most 

 earnestly their feeding on liquid mud. At noon they take repose 

 on the best trees, congregating there to 10-15 ; at 2 or 3 o'clock 

 they are off again in the fields, take then a second time to the 

 water, and turn in to sleep towards sunset. Their flight is rapid 

 and not so awkward as that of the Pyocephalus, of which a small 

 species here exists. 



"No. 1822. Asturinula monogrammiea, Temm. Monbuttu, 

 Niam-uiam, Macraca, &e. The commonest Hawk in the forest, 

 where Hawks are rare. 



" No. 1823. Laniarius, $ • Entirely black. 



"No. 1824, 25. Spermestes poensis, Iras., J ad., S jr. 



" No. 1826. Spermestes cucullatus. Swains. Goes up with the 

 forest to 4° 30' L. N. Found in Macraca nesting in straw 

 thatch. 



" No. 1827. Anthreptes, . 



" No. 1828. Elanus (ccerulew, Desf.). Differs from the typical 

 bird by having only the median tectrices white, whereas the 

 remainder show a grey outer web and a white inner web. This 

 species seems particularly given to skin-diseases : 3 out of 5 speci- 

 mens had fleshy excrescences on the base of the bill or on the feet. 

 Likes open country : never on high trees ; fond of insects and mice, 

 hovering in the air and falling suddenly on its prey like a Kestrel. 

 Macraca, Lado (winter), Nile valley to Albert lake. 



"No. 1829. Ploceus, <f . P. nigricollis, Yieill. 



" No. 1830, 31. Laniarius a films, Gray. Monbuttu, Niaiu- 

 niam ; not existing in the Nile valley. 



"No. 1832, 33. Pytelia, P. sohleyeli, Sharpe, affinis sed diversa : 

 <$ capite coccineo lavato. The first specimen of this species, a 

 badly damaged 2 > xvas procured at Bukoba, Victoria Nyanza. 

 The present pair, <3 in moult, was found amongst rushes on the 

 ground. The female has an ochraceous orange face ; the male 

 shows on head and throat bright crimson spots, and will, no doubt, 

 when fully moulted, have a red head and prove different from 

 the typical P. schlegeli, to which otherwise it entirely resembles. 

 $ and $ are, the red except, alike ; the spotting is the same. 



