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Show 598 JOURNAL OE THE LATE PR. EMIN PASHA. [Nov. 6, rather common. A belt of very different forest without any village or inhabitants was then traversed, and on June 18,1892, we reached Ipoto, Kilongo-longa's place, long. 28° 47'50" E. and lat. 1° 07' N., where a probably long stay is expected. "No. 1808. Corythaix (an schuetti, Cab.?), June 20/92; cf. no. 1695 &c. " No. 1809. Spermestes poensis, Fras., 3 . The easternmost point where I obtained this pretty species is Bukoba on Victoria Nyanza; it was there frequent and many specimens were collected. I may also record it from the forests of the Semliki valley, but on Albert lake it seems not to occur. I cannot agree with the statement * sexes alike ;' and if not every female bird I obtained were a young and every male bird an adult, there is some difference, as m y specimens will show. In company with these birds, which fly in flocks of from 10 to 40, there is here another apparently yellow-billed Finch. " N o . 1810. Phceus nigerrimus, Vieill., 3 ad. A very common bird through the forest country, never entering tbe steppe. The whole of Monbuttu and the Niam-niam country up to Macraca (where I collected it in Tomaja), South Macraca, Kalika, the west coast of Albert Nyanza from Mrva down to Nssabe, the forest in the Semliki valley, and all along the Ituri; finally Bukoba. On Victoria Nyanza were m y collecting stations for this species, which is just as gregarious as its congeners. It has a marked predilection for forest villages, often very small, where, infallibly, the biggest tree in the midst of the huts is full of their nests. They are very noisy birds, and as every bird coming in is greeted by all his neighbours, the chatter never ceases. "No. 1811. 2- Laniarius (?). Small: all over olive-green with white throat. " Observed : Motacilla vidua ; Anthus, sp. ; Cisticola, sp., red-beaded ; Corythccola cristata • Psittacus erithacus, very common; Nigrita canicapilla ; Cuculus solitarius ; Pycnonotus, sp. ; Phceus abyssinicus, Gin., similis ; Tympanistria tympanistria ; Treron calva, very common ; Artomyias ; Malimbus malimbicus; Lophoceros camurus, and a second, small, black and white species ; Spermestes poensis; Columba, dark grey with white belly, eyelids red ; Astur, sp.; Agap>ornis, sp., not pullaria ; a small Parrot, not P. meyeri; Telophonus; Centropus, sp. ; Chrysococcyx cupreus ; Lamprocolius, small; Oriolus brachyrhynchus ; Ceuthmochares australis ; different Cinnyris. "No. 1812, 13. Malimbus malimbicus, Daud., 3 2 • "No. 1814. 3. " No. 1815. Lophoccos camurus, Cass. Frequent. "No. 1816, 17. Lop>hoceros $ ad., 3 jr.; cf. no. 1660. Probably new species, as the young resemble the adult. " No. 1818. Spermestes poensis, Fras., $ ad. Eggs well-developed. Having dissected this specimen very carefully and found a pea-sized and several smaller eggs, m y statement above (cf. no. 1809) becomes invalid. Sexes exactly alike. |
