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was discovered on the Upper White Nile by Henglin, who 

 observed these Weavers constantly flying, singly or in pairs, 

 from the reed-beds, where they roost and breed, into the trees 

 to feed on berries and frnit. Emin (J. f. 0. 1888, pp. 1-3) 

 dwells at some length on the habits of this species, which 

 closely resemble those I have already recorded of A. alhifrons. 

 He found a colony of twenty of their nests in a marsh near 

 Magungo; the nests were large, oval in form, and hung between 

 two reeds at about five feet above the high-water line ; the 

 eggs, four, or sometimes five, in number, were yellowish white 

 with many reddish brown rounded spots, most numerous at 

 the thick end. Emin also found the species abundant at Lado, 

 and met with it as far south as Bukoba on the Victoria Nyanza, 

 and to this species should belong Bohndorff's specimen from 

 Kassongo on the Congo. Mr. Jackson's collection contains 

 eleven specimens, from Uganda, Mount Elgon and Nandi; in 

 the latter country he found them breeding in a marsh in April. 

 The British Museum contains two specimens obtained by Dr. 

 Hinde at Fort Hill on Mount Kenya, showing that in this 

 district, the most eastern range known for the species, it meets 

 with its near ally A. unicolor. 



The types of A. asthiojnca, Neumann, came from Omo and 

 Anderatsha in the Kaffa country, to the north of Lake Rudolf. 



Dr. Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 90) regards them as 

 representing a subspecies of A. alhifrons, and suggests that 

 Bohndorif 's specimen from Kassongo on the Congo {A. alhifrons, 

 Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1887, p. 308) apparently belongs to that 

 subspecies, which implies that the form described as A. xtliiopica 

 is represented from the extreme north-east and south-west 

 limits of the known range of A. melanvta, which is strongly 

 against A. lethiojjica being even subspecifically distinct from 

 A. melanoia, and as I can find no character for the recognition 

 of that form, I have united it with A. melanvta. It is, how- 



