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VieVQ being used, after having been relined with feathers. 

 The clutch consists of four white eggs, about tlie size and 

 shape of those of E'lrundo cucullata (Larger Stripe-breasted 

 Swallow). 



3. Sporopipes squamifrons. (Scaly-feathered Weaver 

 Bird.) 



These Finches are common amongst the thorn scrub, 

 where their nests are conspicuously placed in a thorn bush 

 about six feet from the ground. A nest discovered on the 

 10th June contained four fresh eggs. This nest was of the 

 usual Waxbill type, being made of grass-stems, those on 

 the outside converging to a point over the entrance, which is 

 thus quite closed up. 



4. Serinus angolensis. (Black-throated Seed-eater.) 

 This bird is rare here. At Potchefstroom it nests during 



the months of December and January. One nest discovered 

 there on the 16tli January, 1903, is worth describing. It 

 was placed in the hollow at the top of a cone of the " sugar- 

 bush," about seven feet from the ground, and was so cleverly 

 constructed that detection was almost impossible. The nest 

 was made of soft brown fibres, obtained from the dry flower 

 in the centre of sugar-bush cones, bound together with cob- 

 webs, the edges being nicely rounded off level with the pro- 

 truding sides of the cone. It measured about an inch deep 

 by an inch and a half across. The clutch consists of from 

 three to five eggs, which are white without spots. 



5. Rhinoptilus africanus. (Two-banded Courser.) 

 These " Plover " are abundant in this neighbourhood ; but 

 always shy. They lay their solitary egg during the latter 

 part of July or beginning of August. The only indication of 

 a nest is a small accumulation of pebbles, which would hardly 

 be noticed by the casual observer. 



G. CuRSORius Rurus. (Burchell's Courser.) 

 The eggs of this species may easily be distinguished from 

 those of the preceding by the darker-coloured markings and 



