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14. Fringillaria tahapisi. 



In Upper Natal the Rock Bunting lays, in January and 

 February, a clutch of three eggs of a pale blue ground-colour, 

 covered all over, especially at the larger end, with spots and 

 blotches of reddish brown. 



15. Spizocorys conirostris. (Pink-billed Lark.) 



I found this bird common in the Lindley District of the 

 O.R.C. It makes a small round cup-shaped nest, let into 

 the ground, usually close to the broad leaf of a weed. Eggs 

 rarely more than two in number and very small, being of a 

 white ground spotted all over with dots of greyish brown, 

 frequently forming a ring at the larger end. It lays in 

 December. 



16. Certhilauda rufula. (Rufous Long-billed Lark.) 

 This species is very common in the O.R.C, and nests from 



August to December. Clutch usually three, sometimes only 

 two eggs ; they are of a pale cream ground-colour spotted 

 with yellowish-brown dots, frequently forming a ring round 

 the larger end ; they are hard to distinguish from the eggs 

 of T. cinerea (Red-capped Lark). It lays from August to 

 December. 



17. Nectarinia famosa. (Malachite Sunbird.) 



In Upper Natal builds a second nest in February or 

 March, generally in the scrub alongside rivers and spruits, 

 and frequently lays three eggs. 



18. EuROCEPHALUS ANGUITIMENS. (White-crowned Shrike.) 

 Two eggs of this species were taken by Mr. P. Krantz at 



Matlabas in 1894. They are larger than those of L. collaris 

 (Fiscal Shrike), and are of a cream ground sparingly blotched 

 with olive-green. 



[Matlabas River is in the North-western Transvaal. — 

 A. Haagner.] 



19. NiLAUS BRUBRU. (Brubru Shrike.) 



This Shrike builds, iu the middle of October, a nest in the 

 fork of a camel-thorn or other tree, fifteen to twenty feet 

 from the ground. In external appearance it resembles the 



