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rising after a flight or two, and they are killed with sticks and 
knobkerries.” 
Mr. Haagner remarks: ‘‘ This species is very common in 
the Transvaal, so far as can be judged from my experience in 
the Pretoria and Heidelberg districts. It is seen flying about 
the veldt everywhere, which is not the case with any other 
species of Weaver, so faras [am aware. ‘The nesting season 
commences in October and November. ‘The eggs are of a dirty 
erey-white ground-colour, indiscriminately dotted and blotched 
with light and purplish brown.” The nests he found were 
always in tufts of long herbage near the ground. 
The species apparently does not range further north in 
Hastern Africa than the Transvaal. 
Coliuspasser delamerei. 
Chera procne (non Bodd.) Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 244 Masai; Jackson, 
Ibis, 1899, p. 597 Himateita L., Maw Ravine. 
Coliuspasser delamerei, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 73 (1903). 
Diatropura progne delamerei, Reichen. Vig. Afr. iii. p. 145 (1904). 
Similar in all its plumages to C. progne, but slightly larger, and dis- 
tinguished by the greater length of the tail in the males in full breeding 
plumage. “Iris brown ; bill pale horn blue; legs dark shrimp brown.” Total 
length 25:5 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 5:5, tail 21:0, tarsus 1:05. 3,17. 3.00. 
Mt. Kenya (Delamere). 
Delamere’s Great-tailed Whydah inhabits British Hast Africa 
to the east of Victoria Nyanza. 
The known range of this wonderful bird, which has a longer 
tail in proportion to its size than any other wild species is 
separated from that of its nearest ally, C. progne, by over 1,400 
miles. This fact drew my attention to the probability of the 
bird from the Equator being distinct from the South African 
form, although it shows a great similarity in general appearance. 
I find, however, that it differs in the same manner as C. asyi- 
