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HlRUNDO FILIFERA. 



Scarce ; one nest with three eggs on 7th November, 1889. 

 Nest exactly like the one above described. 



Nectarinia pulchella. 



Common in the gardens. One nest, with two eggs, which 

 were like Black-headed Buntings' in miniature, was in a 

 lime-tree. 



Nectarinia platura. 



Seen only in British Combo. 



CiNNYRIS SENEGALENSIS. 



Scarcely a flowering shrub in my garden yielded any flowers 

 tlie corollas of which had not been pierced by individuals of 

 this species or of 



CiNNYRlS CUPREUS. 

 ZoSTEROPS SENEGALENSIS. 



Rare. 



Pyrgita dentata. 



Passer gularis. 

 Very uncommon. 



Passer swainsoni. 



Some of these I kept alive for several months. They are 

 very hardy, active, and wild. 



Crithagra chrysopyga. 



The natives keep many of these little Siskin-like birds in 

 cages, and speak of them as " Canaries.'^ Their song is 

 monotonous and short. I have had some caged for a 

 considerable period, together with examples of 



Crithagra leucopyga. 



Textor albirostris. 



Hyphantornis brachyptera. 



Hyphantornis cucullata. 



Common. It builds in large colonics on the loiver leaves 



