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Serinus sulphuratus (Linn.'). 

 (Plate X. fig. 13.) 



Crithagra sulplmrata, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 486 



(1875-84 *. 

 Serinus sulphuratus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 352 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml, p. 110 (1899) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 169 



(1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 204 (1902) ;' Reichenow, Vog. Afr. 



iii. p. 265 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 257 (1908). 



Eggs of the Large Yellow Seed-eater are of a pointed oval shape 

 and possess but little gloss. They are white or white tinged with 

 blue, speckled, spotted, and sometimes streaked at the broad end 

 with deep chocolate-brown. Oue example has, in addition, some 

 lilac specks. They measure from -7 to *8 in length, and from -49 

 to '55 in breadth. 



3. South Africa. E L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Cape Colony (T. Atmore : Tris- Growl ey Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



1. Cape Colony (E. L. Lm/ard; Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Serinus flaviventris (Swains). 



Serinus flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 353 (1888) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 110 (1899 ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. 

 p. 170 (1900): Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 199 (1902); Reichenow, 

 Voy. Afr. iii. p. 267 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 258 (1908). 



Four eggs of the Yellow-bellied Seed-eater are of a rather blunt 

 oval shape and somewhat glossy. They are bluish-white, more or 

 less sparingly marked round the larger end with spots, streaks, and 

 hair-lines of deep chocolate-brown. They measure from -67 to '68 

 in length, and from % 50 to *f>3 in breadth. 



4. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 4th Nov. Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.]. 

 (E. Seimund). 



Serinus marshalli, Shelley. 

 (Plate X. fig. 20.) 



Serinus marshalli, Sh^ley, Birds Afr iii. p. 200 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l 

 \. p. 258 (1908). 



Four eggs of Marshall's Canary are of a rather narrow pointed 

 oval shape and somewhat glossy. They are pale greenish-white, 

 marked round the larger end with spots and streaks of deep choco- 

 late-brown and underlying; smudges of reddish-lilac. They measure 

 from -71 to '72 in length, and from -49 to '50 in breadth. 



4. Kuruman, Bechuan aland, 27th Feb. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



