KUNUL. SV. VIST. AKADKMIKNS ti A N 1)1,1 N(i A K. HAND 47. N:<) 5. SI 



Dioptrornis fischeri Rchw. 



Rchw. II, p. 440. 



Common in bushes and trees near cultivated places around Nairobi, Kutu, Embu 

 borna and many other places. 



A young bird in partly spotted plumage was shot in a shamba at Embu borna 28 /i 

 and a similar, but somewhat darker bird at Meru 23 Aj 1911. 



The distribution of this bird extends, as far as is known, from Elgonto Great Arusha 

 and agrees thus nearly with that of Turacus hartlaubi and Mesopicus spodocephalus rho- 

 deogaster. Reichenow does not include it in liis list of birds from the Central African 

 Lake district. 



Melsenornis äter tropicalis (Cab.). 



Rchw. IT, p. 448. 



This black Flycatcher was found as well in forests and valleys with rich vegetation 

 not far from Meru borna as in the dry thornbush-country at Njoro, but then among the 

 palms at a dry riverbed, and on the acacia-steppe at Lekiundu river. 



A young bird in spotted plumage presumably belonging to this species was shot at 

 Itiolu river on the acacia-steppe 5 /'a 1911. 



The discovery of this bird as far north as at Njoro 1° N lat. appears to extend its 

 known area of distribution in a considerable degree. C. von Erlanger did not find it 

 during his travels in North Eastern Africa. 



Muscicapa ficedula (L. ). 



Rchw. II, p. 449. 

 Common in some places, for instance at Guaso Nyiri, Njoro, and at Meru borna. 



Alseonax ccerulescens (Hartl.). 

 Rchw. II, p. 454. 



In the forest-reserve at the Limuru-road not far from Nairobi I found this bird, 

 not in the high trees but among the bushes near the ground in thick forest. 

 Length of wing 75 mm. 



Alseonax murinus Fschr. Rchw. 



Rchw. II, p. 459. 



Specimens of this kind were collected in the primeval forest on the eastern slopes of 

 Kenia and in a forest near Meru borna as well as in forests at Escarpment station. 



In the upper forest-region of Kenia near the bamboos a male specimen with swelled 

 testidés was shot the 26th of March. 



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