346 



UrsBginthus damarensis, llekhemw. 



Mariposa eyanogastra, Gurney, in Anderss. Birds JJamaraL p. 179 



(1872); 

 Urneginthiis beng-alus damarensis, Reich. Vuj. Afr. iil. p. 209 (1904). 

 Unegiiithii,s damareusis, Sliarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 457 (1909). 



Two eggs of the Damaraland Cordou-bleu measure respectively : 

 'bo by -45, and -52 by •4l!. 



2 (out of 4). Ondonga, O'ampoland, Crowley Bequest. 

 29th Mar. (C. J. Anderssun : 

 Tristram Cull.). 



Genus SPOROPIPES, Cabanis. 



Sporopipes squamifrons {Smith). 



(Plate XIV. tigs. 10 & 12.) 



Sporopipes squamifions, Guniei/, in Anderss. Birds Damaral. p. 177 

 (1872); Sharpe, ed. Lui/ard's Birds S. Afr. p. 451 (1875-84); 

 id., Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 407 (1890); Kuschel, J. f. 0. 1895, 

 p. ;J36; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 86 (1900) ; Beic/i. Vdr/. 

 Afr. iii. p. 16 (1904); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 298 (1905); 

 Roberts, J. S. Afr. Orn. U. ii. p. 11 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 457 (1909). 



Four eggs of the Scaly-fronted Weaver-bird are of a slightly 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. In three the ground-colour 

 is ])ale greenish-white heavily blotched over the greater part of the 

 shell with ash-brown and dull lilac ; with a few scattered spots 

 and twisted scrawls of darker brown. In the fourth the ground- 

 colour is pale blue heavily mottled and clouded, especially about the 

 larger end, with dark lilac-grey with rather indistinct and blurred 

 umber-brown spots and markings round the middle. They measure 

 respectively : 'Oo by -46 ; -63 by -46 ; '61 by 45 ; -6 by •43. 



1. Bloemfontein, O.R.C. {B. Hors- Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 



briiffh). 

 3. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



[T.Ayres: Tristram Cull.). 



Genus MALIMBUS, Vieill. 



Malimbus rubricoUis {Swaids.). 



Maliiubus rubricoUis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 478 (1890)j 

 Reich. Voy. Afr. iii. p. 19 (1904); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 346 

 (1905) ; Sharix, lland-l. v. p. 460 (1909) ; JSehrk. Kat. Biersaiuml. 

 p. 335 (1910). 



An egg of Swainson's Malimbe is of a regular oval shape, slightly 

 pointed at one end, and devoid of gloss. It is uniform pale bluCj 

 and measures "86 by "Gl. 



1. Senegainbiii {Trittra7n Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



