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parties, frequenting alike the bushy country by the water-side, 
the dry grassy plains and the outskirts of villages, and 
observed it once soar in the air. Fischer remarks that, like 
many of the other small African birds, they frequently breed in 
the proximity of wasps’ nests, and amongst the homes so placed 
he found four of the present species, three of the Sunbirds, and 
one of Spermestes scutatus. He also observed a pair of these 
birds breeding in a deserted nest of Hyphantornis bojeri. The 
nest and eggs are like those of U. angolensis, which I have 
described. In Ugogo, according to Dr. Pruen, these as well 
as other small Finches are known to the native by the name 
* Sunha,” and in like manner at Formosa Bay, the Suaheli 
* is of the same comprehensive character, as 
name “ Kissiji’ 
we are informed by Fischer. 
The species has not been recorded from the western shores 
of Victoria Nyanza, but, to the north of that great lake, speci- 
mens have been collected by Dr. Ansorge in Unyoro; by Emin 
at Lado, where it is resident, living mostly in pairs, and extend- 
ing northward down the Nile, having been recorded by Capt. 
Stanley Flower as numerous, in April, among the bushes at 
Jebel Ahmeda Agar; by Mr. Hawker at Fashoda, where he 
found it very common and tame, and by Mr. Witherby at Kaka. 
Mr. A. L. Butler writes to me: “ Common in the bush from 
Doka to Galabat (Gedarel-Galabat road), May, 1901, but not 
met with far from water. Occurs up the Blue Nile from the 
Rahab and Dinder Rivers on the Abyssinian frontier to Wad 
Medain, and is also plentiful on the White Nile from Jebel Ain 
to El Kawa. At Jebel Ain, on November 15, 1902, I put a hen 
bird off her nest. The nest was oval horizontally, with the 
entrance at one end, and was composed entirely of fine grass, 
and well hidden at the base of a thorn bush by a thick growth 
of the same yellow grass as the nest was composed of. The 
eggs, four in number and pure white, would be hard to dis- 
