346 PLOCEID A, 
Ureginthus damarensis, Peichenow. 
Mariposa cyanogastra, Gurney, in Anderss. Birds Damardl. p. 179 
(1872). 
Ureginthus bengalus damarensis, Reich. Vig. Afr. iii. p. 209 (1904). 
Ureginthus damarensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 457 (1909). 
Two eggs of the Damaraland Cordon-bleu measure respectively : 
*d0 by -45, and °52 by -42. 
2 (out of 4). Ondonga, Ovampoland, Crowley Bequest. 
29th Mar. (C. J. Andersson: 
Tristram Coil.). 
Genus SPOROPIPES, Cabanis. 
Sporopipes squamifrons (Smith). 
(Plate XIV. figs. 10 & 12.) 
Sporopipes squamifrons, Gurney, ir Anderss. Birds Damaral. p. 177 
(1872); Sharpe, ed. Layard’s Birds S. Afr. p. 451 (1875-84) ; 
id., Cat. Birds B, M. xiii. p. 407 (1890); Kuschel, J, f. O. 1895, 
p. 886; Stark, Fauna 8. Afr., Birds, i. p. 86 (1900) ; Reich. Vog. 
Afr. iii. p. 16 (1904); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 298 (1905); 
Roberts, J. S. Afr. Orn. U. ii. p. 11 (1906); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 457 (1909). 
Four eggs of the Scaly-fronted Weaver-bird are of a slightly 
pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. In three the ground-colour 
is pale greenish-white heavily blotched over the greater part of the 
shell with ash-brown and dull lilac; with a few scattered spots 
and twisted scrawls of darker brown. In the fourth the ground- 
colour is pale blue heavily mottled and clouded, especially about the 
larger end, with dark lilae-grey with rather indistinct and blurred 
umber-brown spots and markings round the middle. They measure 
respectively : °65 by -46; -63 by -46; ‘61 by 45; -6 by -43. 
1. Bloemfontein, O.R.C. (B. Hors- Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 
brugh). 
3. AeER aes Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 
(2. Ayres: Tristram Coll.). 
Genus MALIMBUS, Vieill. 
Malimbus rubricollis (Swaius.). 
Malimbus rubricollis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 478 (1890) ; 
Reich. Voy. Afr. iii. p. 19 (1904); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 3846 
(1905) ; Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 460 (1909); Nekrk, Kat. Lrersammil, 
p. 385 (1910). 
An egg of Swainson’s Malimbe is of a regular oval shape, slightly 
pointed at one end, and devoid of gloss. Itis uniform pale blue, 
and measures ‘86 by ‘61. 
1. Senegambia (Tristram Coll.), Crowley Bequest. 

