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No. 25. c? ad. Elgeyo, July 8, 1890.— Bill dusky horn-blue ; 

 legs bluish flesh-colour ; irides brown. First seen at 

 Elgeyo, breeding. 



No. 26. ? ad. Elgeyo, July 8, 1890.— Soft parts as in the 

 male. Found breeding in an acacia tree. Makes a 

 large nest of dried grass, not unlike that of our Com- 

 mon Sparrow. 



40. Heterhyphantes reichenowi. , ; 

 Heterhyphantes reichenoioi (Fischer) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xiii. p. 418 (1890). 



Hyphanturgus reichenowi, Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. 331 

 (1884 ; Great Aruscha, Naivasha, Sigirari) ; id. J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 132. 

 No. 243. c? ad. Save, Mt. Elgon, Feb. 10, 1890, 6000 



feet. — Irides cream-colour ; bill black ; legs brownish 



flesh-colour. 

 No. 16. ? ad. Elgeyo, July 6, 1890.— Bill black ; legs 



brownish flesh-colour ; iris straw-colour. 

 No. 66. (J ad. Elmekita, Masai Land, July 25, 1890,— 



Bill black; legs pale brownish flesh-colour ; irides cream - 



colour. 

 No. 4. c? juv. Kikuyu Shambos, Aug. 13, 1889. — Young 



of Black-backed and Black-headed Weaver with white 



irides. 

 Young male. Entirely difterent from the adults. General 

 colour above olive-yellow, the mantle and upper back streaked 

 with black centres to the feathers ; crown of the head and 

 sides of the face more olive-greenish, with an obsolete super- 

 ciliary streak of olive above the ear-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 black, externally edged with olive-yellow, the median and 

 greater series golden yellow towards their ends ; quills also 

 black, edged with olive-yellow, inclining to golden yellow 

 towards the end of the outer web; the inner secondaries 

 broadly edged with yellowish white, with an outer fiinge of 

 olive-yellow ; tail olive, yellowish along the outer margin ; 

 cheeks, sides of neck, and entire under surface of body 

 bright golden yellow, the breast and sides of body slightly 



