ART. 17 EAST AFRICAN VERTEBEATES LOVERIDGE 4t 



One day about 80 bishop birds were brought to us in crates and 

 apparently all right, though the men that brought them were fagged 

 out and said they had had an eight-hour walk. The birds fed welb 

 but next day about 10 were dead and many more on succeeding days 

 until their numbers were reduced to 40. 



URAEGINTHUS BENGAI.US CYANOCEPHALUS (Richmond) 

 BLUE-HEADED ELUE WAXBILL 



A bird flew off its nest containing three fresh eggs. (Dodoma, 15. 

 V. 26.) 



Another flew from a pendant weaver's nest of the short-spouted 

 type {Ploceus species) and in it were three waxbill eggs and one op 

 more young. Yet another bird was flushed from its clutch of eggs, 

 in a typical nest situated in an acacia thorn. (Dodoma, 18. v. 26) 



A number of these birds were caged and did very well on a diet of 

 "uwele" heads. (Dodoma, 31. viii. 26.) 



PASSER GRISEUS SUAHELICUS Neumann 



COASTAL PALE-BELLIED SPARROW 



A nest with young was found in that of a swallow's {H. unitatis 

 ahyssinicus) under the station roof where several other sparrows also 

 had their nests. (Nzingi, 25. v. 26.) 



Many nests containing young under the roof of our house here. 

 (Dodoma, 5. v. 26.) 



Fledglings invariably died in captivity. Adults do well on a diet 

 of "mtama" and "uwele." (Dodoma, viii. 26.) 



SERINUS DORSOSTRIATUS DORSOSTRIATUS Reichenow 



These finches do not stand captivity at all well, none surviving 

 more than a week. (Dodoma, viii. 26.) 



SERINUS ICTERUS subspecies 



LITTLE YELLOW SERIN 



A number of these birds lived well, while others, probably mal- 

 treated before being brought in, died. Two nests, each containing 

 three young, were found at Dodoma on May 14, 1926. One brood 

 took to wing when disturbed. 



EREMOPTERYX LEUCOPAREIA (Fischer and Reichenow) 

 RED-CAPPED FINCH LARK 



A female red-capped finch lark was shot off its nest at Dodoma, 

 May 19, 1926. The latter contained three semi-incubated eggs meas- 

 uring 17 by 13 mm.; the ground color of the eggs was white, upon 

 which were superimposed olivaceous-brown specklings; these covered 



