PLOCKIS. — AMliLYOSPIZA. 3G5 



2. Jheeiyuck.Thil, Etawab, ]5lL Sept. Hume Coll. 



(ir.K Brooks). 

 2. Jbeenjurk Jhil, 14tli Oct. (jr. Hume Coll, 



K B.). 

 1, Faridpur, Bengal, 18tli June {J. Hume Coll. 



H. Cripps). 



Ploceus manyar (Horsf.). 



Ploceus manyar, Leff(/e, Birds Ceylon, p. 646 (1879) ; Oafes, Fauna Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, ii. p.' 179 (1890) • id., ed. Hnme, Nests ^- Eqqs Ind. Birds, 

 ■ ii. p. 121 (1890); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. 31. xiii. p. 496 (1890) ; id., 

 Iland-l. T. p. 481 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 340 (1910). 



The eggs of the Striated Weaver-Finch are not separable from 

 those of P. baija. 



7. Sind, India {J. II. Gould). Gould Coll. 



2. Etnvra.h,4thSe])t. {IV. JE. Brooks: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. Bburtna, 27th .July (Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Fvzabad. Hume Coll. 



13. Milana, Deesa, Sept. {E. A. Hume Coll. 



Butler). 



2. Nilg-biris {WaUiou.'^e : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



26. Pegu, 20th June {E. W. Gates). Hume Coll. 



6. Pegu, 29tli Sept. {E. W. O.). Oates Cull. 



Geuus AMBLYOSPIZA, Sundev. 



Amblyospiza albifrons (Vir/.). 

 (Plate XY. figs. 18 & 19.) 



Amblyospiza albifrons, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 501 (1890) ; 

 Kuschel, J. f. 0. 1895, p. 336; Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 80 

 (1900); Reich. Tog. Afr. iii. p. 98 (1904) ; Shellei/, Birds Afr. iy. 

 p. .303 (1905) ; Sparrow, J. S. Afr. Dm. U. i. p. 10 (1905) ; Sharpe, 

 Hund-l. V. p. 481 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersainml. p. 340 (1910). 



Eggs of the Southern Grosbeak-Weayer are of an ordinary or 

 rather loug oval shape and without gloss. The ground varies from 

 white to creamy-white or pinkish-white. Some eggs are rather 

 heavily marked all over the shell with spots and dots of pinkish- 

 brown or maroon and lilac-grey ; in others the markings take the 

 form of minute dots, which become rather dense towards the laj'ger 

 end where they form a sort of cap. Some again have but few 

 markings, and these are almost entirely confined to the larger end, 

 while others are sparingly marked with small rcddit'h-brown spots 

 scattered over the entire shell. They measure from -^2 to 'SG in 

 length, and from "61 to -65 in breadth. 



