Kiiqs of certain Soutli. Africau Passerine Birds. ',) 



kidney-shaped, with an entrance near the top. I spent a 

 considerable time in trying to catch the female with limed 

 twigs at the entrance of the nest, but was only rewarded 

 with a few feathers, as she got off the lime before I conld 

 get hold of her : I caught the cock, however, which is now 

 in my aviary. I took a photo of the nest, which I enclose." 



Capt. Shelley (Birds of Africa, vol. iv. p. 48) states that 

 Mr. A'ehrkorn describes the egg as of a deep blue with dull 

 red and violet spots clustered towards the thick end, and 

 measuring 0*8 X 0*58 mm. Capt. Shelley kindly informs 

 )ne that the egg has also been described by Kuschel (Journ. 

 1'. Orn, 1895, p. 338, and quoted by Heichenow, Vog. Afr. 

 vol. iii. p. 140, 1904). [J. A. B.] 



The three eggs vary a little inter se, but somewhat resemble 

 those of C. aniens. The ground-colour is bluish-green with 

 underlying lavender-grey blotches of varying size and 

 brownish surface-spots and lines both large and small. In 

 two of the eggs these markings are smaller and evenly dis- 

 tributed over the whole surface ; in one of these two the 

 markiniT'^ are so thick as to tend to cover the (ground-colour. 

 In the third egg the markings are rather larger and form a 

 more or less well-defined zone round the larger end, showing 

 more of the ground-colour all over. They are of the same 

 shape as those of C. arc/ens, and measure 18"0 x 13'0, 17*5 X 

 13-0, and 18-0x1 2-2 mm. [G.H. G.] 



Figs. 4 and 5. 



Eremomela FLAViVENTKis. (Yellow - bellied Bush - 

 Warbler.) 



The two eggs figured are from a clutch of lliree taken ))y 

 ]\Ir. Austin Roberts at Fotchefstroom, Transvaal, in Novem- 

 ber 1904. Mr. Roberts writes: "The nest was fixed to a 

 branch of a small thorn-bush about three feet from the oround 

 and well concealed by foliage. The bush formed part of a 

 thick patch of thorn-scrub close to the railway^ line on the 

 Government experimental farm at Potchefstroom.'^ 



So far as can be ascertained, the eggs of this species have 

 never hitherto been described. [J.A. B.] 



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