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in the tliick scrub. Several of tbeii- hanging bottle-shaped 

 nests were found, sometimes three or four depending from the 

 same branch ; one pair of bii'ds was observed building at 

 intervals for three or four weeks, but no eggs were laid during 

 our stay at Shendi." This is the most northern range known 

 to me for the species. 



In Equatorial Africa specimens have been collected by 

 Erain at Agaru and Wadelai ; by Mr. Jackson at Kamassia, 

 Ntebbi and Elgeyu ; at the latter place they were breeding in 

 small colonies in August. 



Hyphantornis reichardi. 



Ploceus reichardi, Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. 1886, p. 150, Karema ; id. 

 J. f. 0. 1886, pi. 2, lig. 3 ; id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 83 (1901). 



Hyphantomis reichardi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 463 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 5i2 (1896). 



TyjK. "Forehead, sides of head and the upper half of the throat black; 

 crowQ rufous ; back and sides of neck and the upper tail-coverts golden 

 yellow ; crop golden rufous ; breast and under tail-coverts golden yellow 

 washed with rufous ; wings blackish brown, with broad yellow edges to the 

 feathers ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of the quills yellow ; tail 

 brown washed with olive yellow, and with yellow edges to the feathers. 

 Iris orange yellow ; bill black ; feet brownish flesh-colour. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 2-0 tarsus 0-8" (Reichenow). 



Reichard's Vitelline Weaver ranges from Usegua to Lake 

 Tanganyika. 



The typical specimens were procured by Bohm at Sim- 

 bamweui in Usegua and near Kerema on Lake Tanganyika, 

 both places in about 7° S. lat. Storms also found the species 

 on the western side of that lake. Bohm mentions (J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 70) meeting with a colony of these Weavers breeding 

 on March 17; some of the nests contained young birds and 

 others eggs, but he never saw more than two in a brood. The 

 eggs he describes as of a bluish or greyish green shade, with 

 spots or more confused marking of dusky brown, and raeasur- 

 ins 0-8 X 0-6. 



