3 GO PLOCEID.^. 



tlie markings are very faint and merely indicated by indistinct 

 cloudings of a darker shade. They vary in length from "73 to "83, 

 and in width from "53 to '57. 



7. E. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra xanthoptera, FinscJi t|' Hartl. 

 (Plate XV. figs. 11 & 12.) 



Ilyphantoinis xantliopterus, Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 114 (1890). 

 Ploceus xanthopteius, Reich. J'off. Afr. iii. p. 94 (1904). 

 Xanthophilus xanthopterus, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 469 (1905). 

 Sitagra xanthoptera, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 477 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kiit. 

 Eiersamml. p. 339 (1910). 



The eggs of the Yellow-winged Weaver- Finch are of an elongate 

 oval shape, frequently almost elliptical, glossy, and of many types 

 of coloration. In one type, they are of an olive-green colour; in 

 a second, they are almost uniform chestnut-brown ; in a third, 

 they have the ground-colour pale-buff covered by a dense freckling 

 of chestnut-brown ; in a fourth the eggs are grej', very thickly 

 speckled all over with pale chestnut. They are very uniform in size, 

 measuring from '8 to '86 in length, and from '56 to -6 in breadth. 



10. Piuo Iliver, British Central Africa, A. B. Percival, Esq. [C.]. 

 P'eb. 



Sitagra galbula {liiijip.). 

 (Plate XV. figs. 14 & 15.) 



Hyphantornis galbula, Hmql. Orn. N.(J.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 557 (1870); 

 Terhuri/, Ibis, 1886, p.' 18; Sharpe, Cat. Birds ^, i>f. xiii. p. 442 

 (1890) ;■ Knschel, J.f. O. 1895, p. 331. 



Ploceus galbula, Reich. Viii/. Afr. iii. p. 95 (1904). 



Xanthophilus galbula, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 474 (1905). 



Sitagra galbula, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 477 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 

 samml. p. 3.39 (1910). 



The eggs of the Golden Weaver-Finch are of an elongate oval 

 shape and devoid of gloss. They are of two types : those with the 

 ground pale blue, and those with the ground white or creamy-white. 

 The pale blue eggs are either thickly speckled and spotted with 

 lilac and pale reddish-brown, or marked with numerous specks and 

 some spots of dark chocolate-brown or purplish-black and under- 

 lying pale purple. The white or cream-coloured eggs are either 

 heavily blotched and spotted with light red and purplish-grey, or 

 more finely marked with small spots and dots of purplish-brown 

 and lilac-grey. They measure from '8 to "88 in length, and from 

 •54 to '6 in breadth. 



3. Lahej, Aden, 1.5th April. Col. J. W. Yerbury [P.]. 



1. Keren, Bogosland (7'A. Ilcvylin). Crowley Bequest. 



