N. Rhodesia and Katanga District of Congoland. 149 
No. 364. $ type. Bunkeya R., 3000 ft.. Sept. 13,1907. 
Bill brownish horn-coloured, paler below at base; feet dull 
flesh-coloured; iris brownish. 
This bird was obtained close to the site of the ruins of the 
chief village of Msiri, the former chief by conquest over a 
large region in this neighbourhood. 
241. Calamonastes katangas. 
Calamonastes katangce Neave, Ann. N. H. (8) vol. iv. 
p. 130 (1909). 
Allied to C. cinereus , but a browner bird; the breast and 
abdomen white, the throat white mottled with brownish; the 
fore-neck ashy, forming a broad band. Total length about 
4T inches; culmen 0*55; wing 2 3; tail 1*7; tarsus 0*8. 
In the young bird, no. 92, the under surface is yellowish. 
No. 92. Dikulwe R., 4000 ft., March 16, 1907. 
Bill black; feet pinkish ; iris golden brown, orbit brown. 
No. 122. $. Dikulwe R., 4000 ft., March 29, 1907. 
Bill dusky ; feet pale flesh-coloured ; iris and orbit reddish 
brown. 
No. 223. ? . Upper Lualaba R., 3500 ft.. May 31, 
1907. 
Bill dusky, base of lower mandible paler ; feet yellowish 
flesh-coloured; iris and orbit yellow-brown. 
No. 429. ?- . Lufupa R., 3500 ft., Nov. 3, 1907. 
Bill black ; feet yellowish flesh-coloured; iris and orbit 
reddish brown. 
No. 519. $ • Chambezi R., 4000 ft., May 4, 1907. 
Bill dusky; feet flesh-coloured ; iris chestnut-brown. 
I found this bird not rare but retiring and easily over¬ 
looked. It is particularly fond of the dense thickets which 
are found in the woodland, on the top of large termite- 
mounds. 
242. Sylvia simplex. 
Sylvia simplex Lath.; Neave, loc. cit. p. 67. 
No. 814. <$. L. Young, Nov. 2, 1908. 
Bill brownish horn-coloured, base of lower mandible paler ; 
feet brown ; iris brown. 
