348 PLOCEID.®, 
Genus HETERHYPHANTES, Sharpe. 
Heterhyphantes melanoxanthus ((ab.). 
Heterhyphantes melanoxanthus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 416 
(1890) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 383 (1905); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 467 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammil. p. 336 (1910). 
Symplectes melanoxanthus, Auschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 334. 
Ploceus melanoxanthus, Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 43 (1904). 
Two eggs of Cabanis’ Black-and-Yellow Weaver-Finch are of 
a rather long pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. The ground 
is white, blotched and spotted almost entirely towards the larger 
end with dull purplish-red and lilac-grey. They measure respec- 
tively : *83 by °55, and -80 by °55. 
2. Witu, B.E. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 
Heterhyphantes nigricollis (Vvevll.). 
(Plate XIV. figs. 14 & 15.) 
Heterhyphantes nigricollis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 416 
(1890); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 881 (1905); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 467 (1909). 
Symplectes nigricollis (Vverll.), Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 3835. 
Ploceus nigricollis, Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 44 (1904). 
One egg of Vieillot’s Black-and-Yellow Weaver-Finch is of a 
somewhat elongate oval shape and slightly glossy. The ground- 
colour is pale greenish-blue, with small and rather blurred spots of 
reddish-brown and faint violet-grey scattered all over the shell, 
but rather more numerous towards the larger end. It measures 
85 by °58. 
Two eggs collected by Mr. Bates have the ground pinkish-white, 
and ure finely freckled all over with small spots and dots of pale 
light red and lilac-grey, the markings being most numerons at the 
larger end. They measure respectively: °83 by °6, and -75 
by 58. 
1 (from clutch of 8). N*Dallo Tando, Dr. W. J. Ansorge [C.]. 
N. Angola, 21st Dec. 
Bitve, River Ja, Cameroon, 22nd 4G. L. Bates, Esq. [C. ]. 
May. 
2. 
Genus HYPHANTURGUS, Cabanis. 
Hyphanturgus ocularius (Siith). 
(Plate XIV. figs. 18, 19, & 20.) 
Ploceus ocularius, Gerney, Ibis, 1862, p. 87; Reich. Vog. Afr. ili. p. 45 
(1994). 

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