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of about 20 nests , all hanging close together from one (the 

 lowest) branch of a huge Cotton-tree near our station. 

 The other parts of the crown were occupied by a large 

 colony of P. cucullatus , the members of which continually 

 attacked the nests of the former and used the materials 

 for the construction and reparation of their own nests. I 

 killed three specimens of the first species, viz. adult male 

 and female and a somewhat younger male , altogether on 

 one day. Male and female were similar in color. In all three 

 specimens the bases to the feathers of the hind neck were 

 conspicuously ashy white. — Unfortunately all three skins 

 got destroyed by drivers (travelling ants) in the following 

 night, and as I left for Hill Town the next morning, I 

 had no chance to obtain other specimens. When I visited 

 the same place again after some weeks , the whole colony 

 had left the place, evidently driven away by their intole- 

 rant congeners. 



85, Pyromelana flammiceps (Sw.). 



Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 194. 



Tolerably common on the grassy plains behind Schieffe- 

 linsville ; also observed at Oldfield. 



86. Quel e a erythrops (Hartl.). 



Ploceus erythrops (Hartl.), Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 194. 



Adult male and female, collected in brushwood and 

 coffee-plantations near Schieffelinsville. 



An adult male , recently obtained from the Zoological 

 Garden at Rotterdam , has the head considerably darker 

 red than wild specimens , chin and upper throat are of 

 the same red color as the other parts of the head, the 

 dark brown basal part of the feathers being very small, 

 and a great part of the feathers on the lower surface , the 

 edge of the wing , the edges to the wing-coverts , to some 

 of the feathers of the mantle and of the tail-feathers are 

 strongly tinged with rosy. 



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