Birds f rum the White Nile. 403 



[The African Droiii^o is very commou south of Kaka^ but 

 rare further north. Its song is very cheerful. It begins to 

 sing just before daylight and does not cease till after sunset. 



I took three nests with eggs in April. Two of them 

 contained three eggs each, but those in the several nests 

 were of a different colour. One clutch was pale terra-cotta, 

 clouded with darker terra-cotta on the large end; another 

 clutch was white, spotted with small purplish-brown spots. — 

 R. M. H.] 



7. Steganura paradisea. 



Steganura paradisea (Linn.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 123. 



a. S imm. (?). Kaka, 29th April. No. 409. 



b,c. c? ? imm. (?). Ed-Duem, 23rd May. Nos. 563, 564. 



Iris hazel ; bill and legs horn-coloured, 



Tliis species appears to breed throughout the year in 

 the various pans of its wide range, for the British Museum 

 Collection contains male birds in full breeding-dress shot in 

 every month of the year except January and October, as will 

 be seen from the following list : — 



Rustenburg, Transvaal : 25tli November. 



Tati, Limpopo River : 30th April. 



Nyasaland: February, May, June, July, August, September. 



Somaliland : 2nd December. 



Abyssinia : March, May. 



Loando : July. 



The males shot by Mr. Hawker, which are apparently 

 immature birds, are in the garb of the female. All three 

 specimens are in full moult, and the new flight-feathers as 

 well as the middle tail-feathers have been renewed • the 

 latter are not, however, longer than the outer pairs. 



[The Paradise Whydah-Finch was not common. I never 

 saw any with the long tail-feathers. — R. M. H.] 



8. Urobrachya phcenicea. 



Urobrachya phmnicea (Heugl.); Sharpe, Cat, B. Brit, Mus. 

 xiii, p, 225 (1890), 



a. S' Fashoda, 22nd March. No. 165, 



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