S98 SITAGRA LUTEOLA 



Liclatenstein's Slender-billed Weaver ranges from Sene- 

 gambia to the Red Sea and southward into Kavirondo. 



The type came from Senegambia. The species formed 

 part of Bulger's collection from Bulama Island; Marche and 

 De Compiegne obtained it at Bathurst, where Dr. P. Kendall 

 considered it to be rare, while Mr. J. L. Budgett found it to be 

 abundant at Nianimaru, and this is all that is known to me 

 regarding its occurrence in West Afi-ica. 



The species has a much wider range on the eastern side of 

 the continent and has been met with as far south as Kwa 

 Kitoto, in Kavirondo, by Mr. Oscar Neumann. Mr. Jackson 

 found these Weavers breeding in August at Elgeyu ; he also 

 met with them at Njemps and the neighbouring valley of 

 Guasa Molo in September, and remarks : " Nest with a long 

 pipe to the entrance." 



In the British Museum there are specimens from Larabat 

 and Lake Boriugo (Delamere), Omo River (Donaldson Smith), 

 Uganda (MacCarthy Morrogh), Lado, Keri and Redjaf (Emin), 

 Zeraf River (Dunn), Kaka, Fashoda and Groz-abu-Grumar 

 (Hawker), Kordofan (Murray), Anseba River (Blanford), 

 Bejook and Gonfalon (Jesse). 



Mr. Jesse found these Weavers breeding early in August. 

 The nest was oval with a long tubular entrance, and contained 

 two white eggs. According to Heuglin they assume their 

 bright plumage in May, commence breeding about the middle 

 of July, and the young are able to fly in October and November. 

 They live mostly in pairs, usually frequenting the water-courses 

 in wooded districts, avoiding the more desert parts. Tlie 

 nest is small, of an elongated oval form, lightly constructed of 

 shreds of leaves or bark, with a little hair or cotton for a 

 lining, and is suspended from the twigs, generally of an 

 acacia-tree, at some twenty feet from the ground. The 

 eggs, two or three in number, are pure white, measuring 

 0-68 X 0-48. 



