certain South African Birds. 31 



pp. 87, 88) by Mr. Bncknill. The egg of tliis species does 

 not appear to have hitherto been figured. 



The ground-colour is o£ a creamy tint ; the larger portion 

 of the obtuse half of the egg is thickly splashed with pale 

 pink-buft' and faint lavender blotches, which at the pole are 

 sufficiently thick to hide the ground-colour ; the lower 

 portion of the egg, with the exception of a few scattered 

 marks, is almost free from spots, though a number of very 

 fine dots of pale pink-buff are found over the whole shell. 



The surface is smooth and slightly glossy : shape ovate. 



Sizes : 25'0 X 16-8 ; 22 6 x 10*5 ; 22-8 x 16-0 mm. 



EuTOLMAETUS SPILOGASTER [Dubus], Bp. African Hawk 

 Eagle. (PL II. fig. 8.) 



The egg figured is one of a pair taken on the 9th July, 

 1904, in Matabeleland by Mr. C. Wilde. The male bird was 

 shot off the nest. The egos are now in the Transvaal 

 Museum. The clutch was shortly described by Mr. Bucknill 

 in this Journal (October 1908, pp. 71 & 97), but the egg of 

 this species does not appear to have been hitherto figured. 



The ground-colour of the egg figured is a dull white ; the 

 entire surface is covered with minute pale brown spots con- 

 fluent in many parts and forming irreguhir patches of fairly 

 large size, particularly towards the obtuse end of the egg. 

 In the second egg the })atclies are almost entirely confined 

 to the narrower half of the egg ; the obtuse end is ulmust 

 free from colourino; and the markino-s are, throuiihout, nmch 

 fainter. 



The surface is finely granulated and without gloss : shape 

 a somewhat pointed oval. 



Sizes: 69-5 X 53-5 ; 69-0 X 52-7 mm. 



Kaupifalco monogrammicus (Temm.). African Buzzard 

 Eagle. (PI. II. fig. 9.) 



The egg figured was taken from the oviduct of a female 

 shot by a friend of Mr. A. L. Butler on March 27th, 1907, 

 at Khor Gitti, Sudan [vide 'The Ibis,^ 1908, p. 253]. 

 Mr. Butler kindly lent this egg for the purposes of this 

 paper. 



