collected in Uganda and British East Africa. 405 



Ploceus (Hyphanturgus) stephanophorus. 

 (? & ? . 22. vii. 12 ; 20. i. 14. 



This is rather a rare forest-species. Both birds are in 

 fresh full plumage. 



Lucalilies. Sio River and Mabira, in Ugauda. 



Ploceus (Hyphanturgus) nigricoUis. 



c? 1-4. 19. X. 13 ; 31. v. 12 ; 3. vii. 12 ; 6. xii. 14. 



Iinm. 5. xii. 14; 14. ii. 12. 

 ? 1-10. Collected in every month except January. 



This large series shows the females in breeding condition 

 to be brighter than those shot during the off-season. Young 

 birds are like females^ but have the crown, back, and rump 

 washed with olive, and the under surface duller yellow ; 

 the bill is pale horny-brown, yellowish on the base of 

 the lower mandible. The nest of this species is retort- 

 shaped, with long tubular entrance. The eggs vary in 

 colour to an extraordinary extent, from white to blue, 

 pink or red-brown, spotted with liver and red-brown, or 

 uniform. 



Localities. Mabira, Kasala, Kyetema, and Jinja, in 

 Uganda. 



Ploceus (Hyphanturgus) ocularius suahelicus. 



Ploceus ocularius suahelicus Neumann, J. Ornith. liii. 1905, 

 p. 39 : Usambara, G. E. Africa. 



(5^ & 2. 2.xi. 14j 20.iv. 13. 



Two examples of this subspecies were obtained. They 

 build retort-shaped nests, with long tubular entrances, of 

 rootlets and grasses, and lined sparingly with fine grass. 

 The eggs are large and white or bluish white, with ash-grey 

 or brownish spots. The nest is usually suspended from the 

 end of a free swinging branch of a thorny acacia. Nests 

 with eggs or young have been taken in June, July, and 

 November. 



Localities. Kisumu, Kyambu, and Nairobi, in British 

 East Africa. 



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