— 158 — 



Wing, tarsus, 



82—85 mm. 23-24 mm. cfcf 



76—83 mm. ' 21 — 24 mm. 99 



Irides yellow white — citron-yellow; bill black; legs pale 

 brownish red — brownish yellow. 



Reichenow (op. cit.) gives the wing-measurements for this 

 bird to 75—80 mm. The minimum for cfcT from Naiwasha and 

 Londiani is however — as appears from the table — 82 mm. 

 Thus, whether specimens from the interior of British East Africa 

 are in general larger than others, as for instance, those from 

 Kilimandjaro (according to Sjostedt: Wissensch. Erg. Schw. 

 Zool. Exp. Kilimandjaro, Meru 1905 — 1906, Stockholm 1910, 

 p. 121 — 78—80 mm.), I cannot decide with any certainty. 



Othyphantes reichenowi nigrotemporalis Granvik. 

 PL 3. 



3 (5(5 ad. 21. 5., 6. 6., 4. 7.; 2 QQ ad. 30. 5., 6. 6.; 2 QQ juv. 26. 5., 11. 6.; 



Mount Elgon. 



This race differs from 0. r. reichenowi Fschr. in the male 

 being entirely devoid of the yellow band around the ear and 

 the black patch of the nape merging into the black ear-coverts. 

 In other repects it is like the preceding. The female is exactly 

 like the female of 0. r. reichenowi. 



This new form of 0. reichenowi is, from what I can see, a 

 good and reliable one. I have examined and compared the 

 abundant collections of reichenowi in the Berlin Museum with 

 mine but I have not found a single specimen which approximates 

 the one described by me. Neither is my bird a juvenile stage 

 of 0. r. reichenowi inasmuch as male and female were shot by 

 the nest and they were in full dress. 



The young birds are similar to the young of 0. r. reichenowi. 



Sjostedt mentions, however, (Wissensch. Erg. Schw, Zool. 

 Exp. Kilimandjaro — Meru 1905-1906, Stockholm 1910, p. 121) 

 that he had observed that the yellow band around the temporal 

 region was missing both in old birds and young. 1 have gone 

 through the bird collections which Sjostedt brought home, 

 found in Stockholm, but have not found a single male without 

 this band. Sjostedt does not mention (op. cit.) whether the 

 lack of this yellow baud applies to cfcT or 99> but as regards 99 

 it has already been established by Fischer that they have the 

 sides of the head entirely black. Sjostedt's statement should, 

 from what I have seen, undoubtedly apply to 99- 



Below the eastern slopes of Elgon, at about 6.500 ft. above 

 sea -level, this Weaver Bird is common and is biologically in 

 agreement with 0. r. reichenowi. On the 6 th June I found a 

 nest containing 2 newly hatched nestlings and one egg, 

 v. Someren (Ibis, 1916, p. 404) says that many nests are 



