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' Cappoc Vogel.' " The eggs, six to twelve in a nest, are 

 uniform pure white, and average - 56 inch by 0"38. 



In the British Museum there are specimens from Port 

 Elizabeth, Kingwilliamstown, Rustenburg and Potchefstroom. 

 Mr. T. Ayres found the species frequenting the scrub along 

 the hill sides and the bush by the banks of the Limpopo. 

 During his journey with Jameson they procured a pair at 

 Spaldings, on the Hart river, and met with small flocks busily 

 feeding amongst the low " Vaal bosch," a grey bush which is 

 very common all over this part of the country. In Bamang- 

 wato they met with a couple of deserted nests of this species 

 on December 29, and at Boatlanami Pan found a nest con- 

 taining one pure white egg. 



iEgithalus punctifrons. 



.Egithalus punctifrons, Sundev. (Efv. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1850, p. 129; 



Heugl. Orn. N. 0. CEfr. p. 410 (1869) Abyssinia, Sennaar ; Hartl. 



Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 345 (1887) : Sclater, Ibis, 1887, p. 462 ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 128 (1896). 

 iEgithalus capensis (nee 6m.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 71, pt. Abyssinia. 



Adult. Above, pale dull ashy green washed with yellow on the lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts ; wings brown with paler edges inclining to 

 white on the primaries ; forehead pale yellow with tiny black spots ; beneath 

 white with a greyish shade on the flank ; under wing-coverts and inner edges 

 of quills white. Bill dusky horn colour ; iris brown ; legs grey. Total 

 length 3'4 inches, culmen 0/3, wing 2, tail 1*25, tarsus - 5. 



The Abyssinian Penduline Tit is a native of Abyssinia. 

 All the information I can find regarding this species is that 

 von Heuglin considered it a very rare bird as he never met 

 with it himself, and it was known to him only by a specimen 

 Hedenberg shot in Sennaar and one in Prince Paul of Wurtem- 

 berg's collection from the highlands of western Abyssinia. 



