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Show 1894.] JOURNAL OF THE LATE PR. EMIN PASHA. 599 "No. 1819. Diaphorophyia castanea, Fras., $. Common. " No. 1820. Halcyon senegalensis, L. Common. "No. 1821. Agapomis, 3 . This species, never before met with, is very near to, if not identical with, the Liberian A. stvinderniana, with which it convenes in general colour, black stripe on the neck, and size. I can, however, not remember if the Liberian bird has likewise the orange-brown broad belt below the black of the neck. Iris pale yellow ; feet olive-greenish ; bill dark plumbeous, the under mandible paler. In flocks from 3 to 4 these birds may be seen and heard at morning and evening time, when leaving the trees they roost in and returning to them ; their shrill twitter is at those times most loudly heard. During the morning they frequent with predilection the new ripening sesame and the rice-fields, and are often on the soil, where they move quickly enough. They are great friends of water, and the Manyuema tell most earnestly their feeding on liquid mud. At noon they take repose on the best trees, congregating there to 10-15 ; at 2 or 3 o'clock they are off again in the fields, take then a second time to the water, and turn in to sleep towards sunset. Their flight is rapid and not so awkward as that of the Pceocephcdus, of which a small species here exists. " No. 1822. Asturinula monogrammica, Temni. Monbuttu, Niam-niam, Macraea, &c. The commonest Hawk in the forest, where Hawks are rare. " No. 1823. Laniarius, $ . Entirely black. "No. 1824, 25. Spermestes poensis, Fras., 3 ad., 3 jr. " No. 1826. Spermestes cucullatus, Swains. Goes up with the forest to 4° 30' L. N. Found in Macraca nesting in straw thatch. " No. 1827. Anthreptes, 2 . " No. 1828. Elanus (cceruleus, Desf.). Differs from the typical bird by having only the median tectrices white, whereas the remainder show a grey outer web and a white inner web. This species seems particularly given to skin-diseases : 3 out of 5 specimens had fleshy excrescences on the base of the bill or on the feet. Likes open country : never on high trees ; fond of insects and mice, hovering in the air and falling suddenly on its prey like a Kestrel. Macraca, Lado (winter), Nile valley to Albert lake. "No. 1829. Phceus, 3. P. nigricollis,Yiei\]. " No. 1830, 31. Laniarius affinis, Gray. Monbuttu, Niam-niam ; not existing in the Nile valley. " No. 1832, 33. Pgtelia, P. schlegeli, Sharpe, affinis sed diversa: 3 capite coccineo lavato. The first specimen of this species, a badly damaged 2i w a s procured at Bukoba, Victoria Nyanza. The present pair, 3 in moult, was found amongst rushes on the ground. The female has an ochraceous orange face ; the male show7s on bead and throat bright crimson spots, and will, no doubt, when fully moulted, have a red head and prove different from the typical P. schlegeli, to which otherwise it entirely resembles. 3 and 2 ar<% t n e re& except, alike ; the spotting is the same. |