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carrying and weaving the materials ; the male was not observed 

 to assist in any way." 



In Camaroons the species is said to be common throughout 

 the country and is apparently equally abundant iu Gaboon, 

 for there are fifteen skius from that country in the British 

 Museum. 



Marcbe collected specimens at Lambarene, Lope, and 

 Doume in the Ogowe district, and Du Chaillu at the Moonda, 

 Muni and Oamma rivers. Petit procured specimens on the 

 Loango Coast, at Landana and Chinchonxo, and it wanders 

 as far south as the Lucale river in Angola, from whence there 

 is one of Hamilton's collecting in the British Museum. 



The species evidently ranges over the whole northern half 

 of the Congo district, for specimens have been collected by 

 Bohndorff at Leopoldsville, by Jameson at the Aruwirai, by 

 Bmin at Tingasi, Djanda, Uvamba and Bukoba. Along the 

 northern portion of Victoria Nyanza the species has been 

 procured by Dr. Stuhlmann on the islands of Sesse and Soweh, 

 off the Uganda coast, and as far east, by Mr. Jackson, as 

 Sotik, (0° 34' S. lat., 35° 25' B. long.). He has also collected 

 two full plumaged males at Ntebi in March and September. 



With regard to the breeding of this species Mr. Biittikofer 

 writes : " Its nest hangs at the end of a twig about three feet 

 above the ground, generally in old farms, where grass and 

 brushwood are growing up again. It is of a pouch-like, some- 

 what oval shape, felted together with the soft fibres of plantain 

 leaves and cotton, with which latter material it is very thickly 

 lined, and outside decorated with interwoven pieces of lichen, 

 which gives it a grey and white speckled appearance. The 

 entrance, a round hole in the side near the top, is covered by 

 a kind of jetty, built from the same material as the nest. 

 Each nest contains commonly two, very seldom three, eggs of 

 an oval form" (0'6 inch by 0'44) ; "colour, greyish white 



