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Show 1894.] JOURNAL OF THE LATE PR. EMIN PASHA. 605 specimen shot while drinking ; the male escaped. Here seen in pairs only and not frequently. The present specimen is somewhat darker in colour than tbe male previously obtained ; its head is, however, with a very slight metalled gloss, whereas the broad iridescent coppery belt on the lower neck is mostly the same as in the male. White on tips of rectrices only very limited. Soft parts resembling to those of the male but duller. The ovary contained a small cherry-sized and two smaller eggs. "No. 1930, 31. Picus, 3 2 ? Collected at Ismaili's and here, Maika forest, frequent. " Our last halting-place, before reaching the Congo, was reached on Oct. 12, 1892. It is Muyomema, commonly called Kinene, the name of its headsman, a drunken Uniamuezi slave-Said bin Abeids. "No. 1932. Cinnyris chloropygius, Jard., 3. Very common. " No. 1933. Phceus nigricoUis, Vieill., 3 • Common. " No. 1934. Pgcnonotus layardi, Gurney, 3 . Very common. "No. 1935,36. Laniarius leucorhynchus, Hartl., 3 2- Black bills; female slightly greyer in colour than male. " No. 1937. Cinnyris, 3 jr. Perhaps chhropygia. " No. 1938, 39 ; cf. no. 1894-95. A n adult female and a very young male of this interesting species. The young, still younger than no. 1895, has the underparts pure white without any trace of barring. " No. 1940. Halcyon senegalensis, Linn., 5 . "No. 1941-42. Corythaix, 3 ?; cf. no. 1808 et 19. This is apparently the most frequent of plantain-eaters through the Eastern forest. Always in pairs, it feeds with avidity on different fruit and berries, of which the stomach is always full. Spec. no. 1941 had in the stomach besides an olive-like fruit a small shell, probably swallowed while adhering on the fruit. "No. 1943. Corythaix; cf. no. 1941-42, $ ad. " No. 1944, 45. Lophoceros camurus, Cass., 3 $ . Common. " No. 1946. Estrelda, 3. If this is E. nonnula, Hartl., collected by the late Mr. Jameson at Vambuya and by Hr. Bohn-dorff at Stanley Falls, it is certainly different from m y birds from Macraca and Monbuttu, and from its dark colour, great extension of red, colour of bill, and black vent I should surely range it with E. atricapilla, Verr. It differs, however, from the beautiful figure given by Capt. Shelley in having chin, throat, and sides of head more whitish; and the existence of two different species in localities so near to each other as Stanley Falls and here is scarcely to be believed. I call it, therefore, E. nonnula with some doubt. " No. 1947. Bubo, 3 ; cf. no. 1905. Not infrequent. Stomach: two field-mice. "No. 1948, 49. Spermestes poensis, Fras., 3 2- Very frequent everywhere on clearings. " N o . 1950. Estrelda, 3; cf. no. 1946. Of the same dark colour as the above specimen; red very bright and extended; under of belly aud vent black. |