26 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Hyphantornis abyssinicus abyssinicus (Gmelin). 



1 cf , El Mesharat, Blue-Nile, 4 Jan. 



Fairly common, in small flocks around durrah fields. 



Xanthophilus galbula Riippell. 



1 cf and 2 9 's, Singa, Blue-Nile, 27 Dec. ; Magangani, 26 Jan. 



Common. This is the species which Butler (Ibis, 1905) describes 

 as the commonest weaver, but the great flocks seemed to us to be 

 mostly Quelea, the Red-billed weaver. 



Eulabetidae. 

 Lamprotornis purpuropterus aeneocephalus Heuglin. 



1 d^, Gabardi, Blue-Nile, 31 Dec. 



Tail, 8 inches, tail feathers, 7.3 inches. This is maximum accord- 

 ing to the Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, but less than 

 Butler's maximum for Kordofan birds (Ibis, 1905, p. 324). 



Very common. 



Lamprocolius chalybeus chalybeus (Hemprich&Ehrenberg). 



1 d^, Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 10 Jan. 

 Common in small flocks around villages. 



Lamprocolius chloropterus schraderi Neumann. 



1 9 , Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 10 Jan. 



An immature bird; w. Ill, cul. 18, tail feathers, 69, tarsus, 24. 



Spreo pulcher (P. L. S. Miiller). 



1 &, Singa, Blue-Nile, 25 Feb. 



Only seen a few times; apparently does not occur far south. 



Oriolus chryseos (Heuglin). 

 1 9 , Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 19 Jan. 



