860 PLOCEID2. 
the markings are very faint and merely indicated by indistinet 
cloudings of a darker shade. They vary in length from -73 to °88, 
and in width from °53 to *57. 
7. EH, Afnea. Crowley Bequest. 
Sitagra xanthoptera, Minsch § Hartl. 
(Plate XV. figs. 11 & 12.) 
Hyphantornis xanthopterus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, xiii. p. 444 (1890). 
Ploceus xanthopterus, Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 94 (1904). 
Xanthophilus xanthopterus, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 469 (1905). 
Sitagra xanthoptera, Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 477 (1909); Nekrk. Kat. 
Eiersammi. p. 389 (1910). 
The eggs of the Yellow-winged Weaver-Finch are of an elongate 
oval shape, frequently almost elliptical, glossy, and of many types 
of coloration. In one type, they are of an oliye-green colour; in 
a second, they are almost uniform chestnut-brown ; in a third, 
they have the ground-colour pale-buff covered by a dense freckling 
of chestnut-brown; in a fourth the eggs are grey, very thickly 
speckled all over with pale chestnut. They are very uniform in size, 
measuring from °8 to °86 in length, and from -56 to ‘6 in breadth. 
10. Ruo River, British Central Africa, A. B. Percival, Esq. [C.]. 
Feb. 
Sitagra galbula (/ipp.). 
(Plate XY. figs. 14 & 15.) 
Hyphantornis galbula, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 557 (1870) ; 
Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 18; Sharpe, Cat. Bords B. M, xiii. p. 442 
(1890); Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 331. 
Ploceus galbula, Reich, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 95 (1904). 
Xanthophilus galbula, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 474 (1905). 
Sitagra galbula, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 477 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Ever- 
samml. p. 339 (1910). 
The eggs of the Golden Weaver-Finch are of an elongate oval 
shape and devoid of gloss. ‘They are of two types: those with the 
ground pale blue, and those with the ground white or creamy-white. 
The pale blue eggs are either thickly speckled and spotted with 
lilac and pale reddish-brown, or marked with numerous specks and 
some spots of dark chocolate-brown or purplish-black and under- 
lying pale purple. The white or cream-coloured eggs are either 
heavily blotched and spotted with light red and purplish-grey, or 
more finely marked with small spots and dots of purplish-brown 
and lilac-grey. ‘They measure from ‘8 to °88 in length, and from 
-54 to °6 in breadth. 
3. Lahej, Aden, 15th April. Col. J. W. Yerbury [P.]. 
1. Kerén, Bogosland (7%. Heuglin). Crowley Bequest. 


