b5-4 PLOCEID, 
oval form and devoid of gloss. The ground is pale greenish-blue, 
in one instance creamy- Saline and the markings are of three 
different. types: (1) finely and closely freckled all over with dull 
purplish-brown and lilac- erey; (2) thickly blotched and spotted 
with the same colours, the markings being concentrated towards 
the larger end and forming a more or less imrepular cap; (3) rather 
sparingly marked with distinct rounded spots, marks, and blotches 
of deep chocolate-brown and pale lilac. They vary from *76 to °86 
in length, and from °55 to °58 in breadth. 



3. Entebbe, Uganda, March. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C. |. 
2. Intebbe, March. F, J. Jackson, Esq. | C.|.! 
2. Entebbe, March. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Entebbe, March. 1 aed Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Entebbe, March. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Elgeyu, Kamassia Mts., B. FE. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 
“Africa, 3rd March. 
2. Elgeyu, 11th July. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 
6. Elzeyu, 14th August. F. J. Jackson, Esq. | C.]. 
2 Elzeyu, 14th Aug ust. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C. |. 
2. Elyey u, 14th Aucust. F, J. Jackson, Msq. | C.}. 
2. Elgeyu, nage August. F. J. Jackson, Esq. (C. }. 
4, Witu, B. E. Africa (Dr. Fischer). Crowley Bequest. 
Sitagra dimidiata, Antin. J Salvad. 
Hyphantornis dimidiatus, Antin. § Salvad. Atti R. Acad. Torino, 1873, 
p. 860; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 436 (1905). 
Hyphantornis fischeri, Snes out. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 458 (1890) ; 
Kuschel, J. f. O. 1898, p. = 
Ploceus peeheni: Reich. Vig. ei il. p. 70 (1904). 
Sitagra dimidiata, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 472 (1909). 
Sitaera fischeri, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 472 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Frer- 
samml, p. 858 (1910). 
Eggs of Fischer’s Weaver-Finch are stated by Nehrkorn to display 
the same amount of variation as those of S. jacksoni described above. 
The only specimen in the Collection has the ground greenish-blue, 
and is densely and rather faintly freckled all over with pale umber 
and grey. It measures *77 by °d5. 
1. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 
Sitagra melanocephala (Linn.). 
Hyphantornis melanoce} vhalus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. ee p. 457 
(1890); Rendall, Ibis, 1 1892, p. 220; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 489 
(1905). 
Ploceus melanocephalus, Reich. og. Afr. ii. p. 71 (1904). 
Sitagra melanocephala, Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 472 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. 
“Eiersammi. p. 358 (1910). 
Three eggs of the Black-headed Weaver-Finch are of a narrow 
elongate oval shape, somewhat glossy, and of three distinct types of 
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