obtained hi British East Africa. 611 



Symplectes reichenoioi Reichen. Vog. dentsch, Ost-Afrikas, 

 p. 179 (1894). 



Othyphantes reichenowi Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 37 (1896). 

 a. cT j^v- Kampala, March 19, 1895. Iris straw-colour ; 

 bill black ; feet brownish fiesh-colour. 



No. 143. S <i<l- Nandi, 6500 feet, July 8, 1896. Soft 

 parts as ahove. 



Nos. 156, 157. c^ ? ad. Naudi, July 6, 1896. Nest like 

 that of the common Yellow Weaver-bird, in a small tree like 

 a mountain ash, about ten feet from the ground. Three eggs, 

 white, with large rusty-brown spots. 



No. 165. ? imm. Nandi, July 8, 1896. Bill dusky horn- 

 colour, the lower haaudible horny white at base. 



No. 1143. c? ad. Nandi, May 24, 1898. The nests vary 

 in size, some being much more compact than others. They 

 are made entirely of grass, mostly green, but it soon becomes 

 dry. The ceiling is composed of green grass-seed heads 

 beautifully arranged, and the floor where the eggs rest is 

 also lined with seed-heads, and very often with soft down of 

 groundsel and thistles. Most of the eggs were very much 

 incubated by the eiul of June; many of the nests contained 

 young. 



No. 1151. ? ad. Nandi, May 26, 1898. Breeding. Nest 

 with three blue eggs, no spots, much incubated ; another 

 with young. Nest woven on to the stem of a low tree or 

 bush, not suspended to ends of twigs, made of a coarse grass 

 lined with seed-heads, which form the roof and porch. 



No. 478. S ad. Ravine, 7500 feet, Feb. 23, 1897. Very 

 plentiful. Seen singly and two or three together, sometimes 

 as many as eight or ten, but this, I think, is only for a short 

 time after the breeding-season. 



No. 479. $ ad. Ravine, Feb. 23, 1897. 

 No. 556. ? imm. Ravine, March 25, 1897. Iris straw- 

 colour ; bill dark brown, lower mandible horn-white; feet 

 olive-brown. Very plentiful. 



No. 603. ? ad. Ravine, April 3, 1 897. 

 No. 698. S ad. „ July 26, 1897. 



No. 1172. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet. May 30, 1898. Nest 

 with two eggs, blue, with large brown spots. 



