614 Mr. F. J. Jackson on Birdft 



No. 118. $ . Ravine, June 24<, 1896. Soft parts as iti 

 the male. 



Nos. 128, 129. d ? . Nandi, 6500 feet, June 29, 1896. 

 No. 544. 6 • Ravine, March 20, 1897. Iris crimson- 

 brown ; bill black; feet brown. Found nearly always in 

 pairs. In habits these Weaver-birds much resemble our 

 Goldfinch, being found in high trees, and twisting and 

 turning into all sorts of positions in search of their insect- 

 food. The stomach contained beetles, insects, &c., but no 

 grains or seeds. 



No. 970. <S . Nandi, 6500 feet, June 13, 1896. Feet 

 pale brown. Always in pairs. Climbs about big stems and 

 branches like a Tit. 



No. 991. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet. April 15, 1898. 

 Nos. 1085, 1086. c^ ad. Nandi, May 9, 1898. Feet pale 

 brown, with a slaty tint. 



No. 1154. ? . Nandi, May 26, 1898. Breeding. Nest 

 made of corkscrew-like tendrils of convolvuli, with long 

 retort-shaped spout, w^oven on to the under side of a branch 

 of a thorn-tree, but not suspended from the end of a branch. 

 Eggs two, pale blue. 



No. 1276. S juv. Nandi, July 7, 1898. Iris brown; 

 bill dusky horn-colour, the lower mandible whitish horn; 

 feet pale slaty-brown. The stomach contained the remains 

 of what appeared to be ants and other insects. 



[One of the most interesting of Mr. Jackson^s discoveries 

 in the field has been that this black-and-yellow Weaver has a 

 chestnut- headed male, which appears to me to be Symplectes 

 croconotus of Sjostedt, hitherto known only from the Carae- 

 roons. In mentioning this fact in 1897, 1 accidentally referred 

 to the species as Heterhyphantes stephanophorus, from a too 

 hasty examination of the numbers on the plate in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1891. The young male procured on the 7th of 

 July resembles the adult female, but has the black wing- 

 coverts edged with yellow, and the yellow of the back is 

 paler, the entire under surface of the body being pale lemon- 

 yellow. The crown and sides of the head are olive-green 

 with black feathers intermingled, showing that, in its first 



