(-'/(, liillwrlo unrccordt'd B'nxU from the Tran.sraaL 31) 



or Ills auricapillus), and when shot was found to contain .a 

 pure white egg in her oviduct. This egg most nearly 

 resembles No, iv. on Phite III., being, however, a little more 

 pointed at the acute end, and measures 21"5 mm. by 15 mm. 

 Major Sparrow's view that the eggs are not white would 

 appear to be ill-tbunded, as we think we have conclusively 

 proved that not only is such the case, but that these birds 

 lay eggs which show a considerable diversity in colour, size, 

 shape, and markings. 



X^I. — Notes on certain Birds liitherto wirecorded from the 

 Transvaal. By Lionel E. Taylor, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



The following species have, so far as I am aware, never been 

 previously recorded from the Transvaal in any published 

 work, although, possibl}-, some of them may have been 

 obtained in the Colony by other collectors who have never 

 made public their results. My thanks are due to Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater for having kindly identified the specimens forwarded 

 to him. Those species initialled [C. H. T.] were procured 

 by my brother Mr. C. H. Taylor; those initialled [L. E. T.] 

 by myself. The numbers prefixed to each species are (where 

 applicable) those given in Selater's Check-list of the Birds 

 of iSouth Africa {' Annals of the South African Museum/ 

 vol. ill. i)art viii. no. !»). 



2U*. Hyphantoknisjamesoni. (Jameson's Weaver Bird.) 

 A single specimen obtained near Krabbefontein in tln! 

 Zoutpansberg in Oct. 1905. [C. H. T.] 



Stark records this s{)ecies from Swazieland, and Sclater 

 marks it in his Check-list as from the Eastern Transvaal. 

 Possibly the latter refers to the Swazieland specimen. 

 Swazieland is now (since 1904) included in Transvaal 

 territory, but the Eastern Transvaal difi'ers so greatly topo- 

 graphically from Swa/ieland that, I think, for ornithological 

 pur[)oses it is as well to diti'erentiate between the two. 



