426 



EULABETID.'E. 



'2. Ovampoland, Damaraland, March Crowley Jleqiiest. 



{C. J. Andcrsson : Tristram 



Cull). 

 1. X'Dalla Tando, N. Angola, -JOtli Dr. W. J. Ansorye [C.]. 



Oct. 



Genus SPREO, Lesson. 



Spreo bicolor (Gmel.). 

 (Plate XIX. figs. 4 & 6.) 



Lamprotornis bicolor, Thien. Fortpjlanz. yes. Voy. tab. xxxviii. fig. 9 

 (1845-54). 



Spreo bicolor, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. ^/nca, p. 429 (] 875-84) ; 

 Butler, Feilden Sf Beid, Zuul. 1882. p. 25tj ; iSkarpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xiii. p. 187 (1890); Kuschel, J.f. O. 1895, p. 330; Nehrk. 

 Kut. Eiersamml. p. 123 (189rj), p. 352 (1910) ; IStark, Fauna S. A/r., 

 Birds, i. p. 30 (lyOO) ; Beich. Voy. Afr. ii. p. (573 (1903) ; Shelley, 

 Birds Afr. v. p. 85 (litOlJ) ; Haayner l^ ley, Journ. S. Afr. Or it. 

 Uition, iii. p. 78 (1907) ; BncknUl, Journ. A'. Afr. Orn. Union, iv. 

 p. 75 (1908) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 542 (1900). 



The eggs ol: the Comuioa Cape Tree-Starling are mostly of a 

 pointed oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a deep bhiish- 

 green colour, tiie majority being plani, and others spotted witli pale 

 lilac-red. They measure Irom 1-14 to \-'6 in length, and from ■'H'J. to 

 •y in breadth. 



3. South Africa. 



3. South Africa. 



4. South Africa. 

 4. South Africa. 



1. Cape Colouy {T. C. At more : 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. CaDe Colony [E. L. L. : Tristram 



'Coll.). 

 4. Howiespoort, Cape Colony, 5th 

 Dec. (i. Palmer). (With one 

 egg oi Indicator major.) 



3. Howiespoort, 28th Dec. [B. E. J.). 



(Witli one egg of Indicator 



major.) 

 1. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 23rd 



Nov. ( C. H. B. Grant '<^- E. C. 



Seitnund). 

 1. Kuruman, British Bechuanaland, 



2nd Jan. 



4. Kuruman, 2Dd Jan. 



5. l!i&tal (T. Ayres : Tristram Coll.). 



4. Ladysoiith, Natal, Nov. 



5. Amersfoort, E. Transvaal, (Jet. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



W. Radcliiie Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



B. E. Jupp, Esq. [P.]. 



B. E. Jupp, Esq. [P.]. 



Colonel A. T. Sloggett [P.]. 



B. B. Woosnam & R. E. Deut, 



Esqrs. [C. ]. 

 K. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [C.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Capt. Savile G. Raid [C.]. 

 Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 



