KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 47. N':o 5. 83 



has not the streaked pattern on the lower neck and chest which is so characteristic of 

 the new bird. 



In its general appearance it reminds one strikingly about the Spotted Flycatcher 

 of Europé, hence the name. 



Chloropeta natalensis massaica Fschr. Rchw. 



Rcuw. II, p. 465. 



One specimen shot at Kutu just outside the chief Kutu's village among tall herbs 

 25 /i, another was shot in a tree along the road. between Punda Melia and Blue Post V*. 

 These two were the only speeimens of its kind seen. 



The crown of the head is very dark, blackish brown, sharply defined from the colour 

 of the back, rich yellow below. Length of wing 62 — 63 mm. The first mentioned male 

 from Kutu had swelled testicles. 



Judging from the literature this bird has a wide distribution from Ruwenzori and 

 the Semliki Valley to Shoa, and the Nyassa-district. 



Bias musicus Vieill. 



Rchw. II, p. 469. 



Male and female of this bird were shot in a forest at the road leading northward 

 from Meru borna not far from Luazomela. The birds kept themselves mostly in the 

 thick foliage of the trees. 



This find appears to extend the area of distribution of this species considerably in 

 a northeasterly direction but the locality mentioned is most probably at its boundary- 

 line. Formerly it was known from Liberia to Loango, from Uganda to Mozambique 

 (Reichenow), and observed at Mombasa by Percival. 1 It extends thus right across 

 Africa, inhabiting forests where such are to be found. 



The iris was yellow in the female. 



Batis orientalis somaliensis Neum. 



Xeum., Journ. f. Ornith. 1907, i>. 351. 



On the northern side of Guaso Nyiri at Njoro and other places in the thornbush- 

 country this race was found. Its length of wing averaged 52 mm in both sexes. In two 

 males the white eyebrow-stripe does not extend backward beyond the eye, but this cha- 

 racteristic is evidently variable. In a female the sides of the throat has a faint rusty tint 

 which is not found in another. The crown of the head in both sexes is dark grey. A 

 male shot the 12th of March had swelled testicles. 



According to Neumann 2 this bird lives in »North Somaliland, the northern parts 

 of South Somaliland and Arussi land». Neumann has also created a »species» which 



1 The Ibis 1910, i>. 700. 



- Jörn. f. Ornith. 1907, p. 351. 



