320 PLOCEID^E. 



5. South Africa. W. Radcliffe Saundcrs. Esq. 



[P.]. 



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



4. South Africa. J. D. S. Paivy-Evans, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Pondoland. Crowley Bequest. 



8. Winterberg District, Cape Colony, B. E. Jupp, Esq. [C.]. 



Jan. (Moorcraft). 



3 Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 19th Nov. Colonel A. T. Sloiygett [P.]. 



(E. Seimund # C. H. B. Grant). 



2. Deelfontein, 19th Nov. (E. S. & Colonel A. T. Sloggett [P.l. 



C. H. B. G.). 



1. Deelfontein, 19th Nov. (E. S. & Colonel A. T. Sloggett fP.1 



C. H. B. G.). 



2. Kuruman, British Bechuanaland, R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dont, 



19th Dec. Esqrs. [C.]. 



2. Kuruman, 19th Dec. R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [C.]. 



2. Ondonga, Ovampolaud, Feb. (C. J. Crowley Bequest. 



Andersson: Tristram Coll.]. 



6. Transvaal ( T. Ayres : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Co//.). 



G. Johannesburg, Transvaal, Dec. C. C. Roberts, Esq. [P.J. 



2. Johannesburg, Dec. C. C. Robert-*, Esq. [P.J. 



2. Koodoo's Poort, Transvaal, 13th Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 



Jan. (C. B. Horsbrugh). 

 1. Ruo River, B. C. Africa. A. B. Percival, Esq. [C.]. 



Pyromelana frandscana (Isert). 

 (Plato XIV. fig. 3.) 



Euplectes franciscanus, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 571 (1870). 

 Pyromelana franciscana, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 233 (1890) ; 



Kendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 220; Kuschel, J.f. O. 1895, p. 337 ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 124 (1899), p. 330 (1910) ; Reich. Voi/. Afr. iii. 



p. 122 (1904) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 90 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



v. p. 415 (1909). 



Eggs of the Red-throated Bishop-bird are of a regular oval shape, 

 very glossy, and of a pale blue colour. They measure from "7 to -75 

 in length, and from '5 to '53 in breadth. 



1. Senegambia (Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



3. River Gambia, \V. Africa, 7th Dr. P. Kendall [P.]. 



Aug. 

 3. Omdurman, White Nile. Capt. H. N. Dunn [P.]. 



Pyromelana diademata ( Fischer $ Reichenow). 



Pyromelana diademata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 236 (1890)* 

 id., Hand-l. v. p. 416 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 330 (1910). 



An egg said to that of the Fire-fronted Bishop-bird is of rather 

 a wide oval shape and distinctly glossy. The ground-colour is palo 

 greenish- white, rather profusely marked over the greater part of 

 the shell with distinct dots of reddish-chestnut and lilac-grey. 



