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EINAR LÖNNBERG, BIRDS. 



Pomatorhynchus minutus Hartl. 



Rchw. II, p. 552. 



During the dry season I did not see any representative of this species, but since the 

 rain had begun it appeared to be fairly common in moist places at the börder of marshes 

 or swamps with rich vegetation of bushes, reeds and tall herbs. A pair was secured 2 U 

 between Punda Melia and Blue Post; the male had swelled testicles. Other specimens 

 were seen or shot at Ruiru river etc. 



This species is distributed from West Africa through the Central African Lake dist- 

 rict. It has been stated in Kawirondo and at Nandi but not so far east as at the locali- 

 ties recorded above. 



Pomatorhynchus senegalus (L.). 



Rchw. II, p. 547. 



At Fort Hall I observed ai U a Pomatorhynchus with the crown of the head black, 

 and with a black streak through the eye. It could hardly have been anything but this 

 species but as it was on the grounds of the borna I could not make sure by shooting it. 



Chlorophoneus dohertyi (Rotsch.). 



Rchw. II, p. 567. 



Two specimens of this rare and extremely beautiful Shrike were obtained in the 

 forest at the Escarpment station in very dense bush. 



The f act that this bird now, quite lately \ has been found west of Lake Victoria in 

 Bugoje, and in the great forests west of Lake Tanganjika proves it to belong to the Cen- 

 tral African forest fauna which was to be expected, although it first had been found in the 

 Kikuyu country. 



Pelicinius cruentus hilgerti Neum. 



Rchw. III, p. 833. 



This bird appears to belong typically to the thornbush. The first specimens were 

 secured in a large patch of thornbush near Lekiundu river, and north of Guaso Nyiri in 

 the real thornbush-country it was of ten seen. Specimens were also obtained at Njoro 

 and Thera. Its general grey colour agrees very well with the leafless grey branches of 

 the bush. 



It is evidently a member of the Somali-fauna. 



Laniarius funebris Hartl. 



Rchw. II, p. 574. 



The 27 th Febr. a small flock of this species was found in a clump of bushes with 

 evergreen leaves growing in a dry river bed at Njoro. They kept themselves in the in- 

 teriör of the bushes and never perched on the tops. A pair of specimens were secured. A 



1 Reichenow: Vogelfauna d. Mittelafr. Seengebietes 1911, p. 312. 



