4 Mr. C. F. M. Swvniiorton on S&sts and 



459. Hi RUN Do tuella, Teniin. k Sclil. Smaller Stripe J- 

 breasted Swallow. 



25. 3300 ft. 21.11.97.— The usual mud nest attached 

 at a point (j^ feet from the 2;round to a shale cliff in the side 

 of a hill. It contained three fresh eggs, long, narrow, and 

 pure white, each measuring 21 by 14 mm. The birds were 

 very shy. 



27. 3200 ft. 20. 11. 07.— A nest inside a disused house, 

 6^ feet from the ground, with four hard-set eggs similar to 

 those of No. 25. They measure : 20'3 by 14*5, 21 by 14*5, 

 22 by 15, and 23 by 15 mm. 



492. Batis erythrophthalma, Swyn. Red- eyed Fly- 

 catcher. 



22. 3200 ft. 20. 11. 07.— A nest C) feet from the ground, 

 on the drooping branch of a shrub beside a stream. It 

 contained two very hard-set eggs. 



This clutch was ascribed by Odendaal to Tchkrea plum- 

 heiceps, of which s])ecies he shot a female at the nest ; but I 

 cannot help feelin<i that it may have been the wrong bird, for 

 the egg is a typical one of the above .Bafis, white (faintly 

 greenish) in ground-colour, with large blotches jind specks 

 of brown-grey and smears of light vandyk-l)r()wn. They 

 measure 17*5 by 14 mm. 



500. TcHiTREA PLUMBEICEPS (Rchw.). Lead-headed 

 Paradise Flycatcher. 



29. 3500 ft. 27. 11.07.— A nest in a wooded glen ; it 

 was sewn by cobweb to the fork of a siniill semivertical 

 twig, 9^ feet from the ground, and com]»osed externally of 

 shredded herbaceous bark, a few small roots, and, on one 

 side, a scanty layer of moss ; also scraps of b;irk. The outsido 

 is ornamented f:iirly copiously with pale green-grey lichen. 

 The greatest diameter and depth were each, aj)proxiuuiteh-, 

 2*5 inches. It contained three fresh egg:-, 1 1* Ijy 14'5, 19 by 

 14, and ltS'5 by 14 mm. ; creamy white, each with a fairly 

 dense zone of small brown madder and grey spots, the actual 

 colour in each case being much like that of the curres})ou(h'ng 

 markings on tl.e eggs of the l'hick-e:ip Iiulhul []'>/< iidiintus 



