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2. North Queensland, 20tli Feb. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



4. Herbert River, Queensland. S. Boyd, Esq. [P.] 



4. Herbert River, 7th Jan. (J. A. Crowley Bequest. 



Boyd : North Coll.). 



Genus ESTRILDA, Swainson. 



The eggs of all the members of this genus are of a rather broad 

 oval shape, and pure white devoid of gloss. 



Estrilda astrilda (Linn.). 



Estrelda astrild, Gurney, Ibis, 1862, pp. 31, 156 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 

 Birds S. Africa, p. 470 (1875-84); Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 178 

 (1904) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 194 (1905). 



Estrilda astrilda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 391 (1890) ; Butler, 

 Foreign Finches in Capt. p. 142 (1895) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, 

 i. p. 98 (1900) : Sparrow, J. S. Afr. Orn. U. i. p. 10 (1905) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 450 (1909) j Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 335 (1910). 



The eggs of the Common Waxbill measure from '52 to '65 in 

 length, and from -4 to '46 in breadth. 



5. Natal (T. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 8. Natal. Capt. S. G. Reid [0.1. 



2. Pinetown, Nalal, 17th Mar. Capt. G. E. Shelley [P.]. 



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



5. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 18th Nov. Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.j. 



(E. Seimund $ C. H~B. Grant). 



2. Mauritius (E. Newton : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.}. 



2. Lucia, Mauritius, April (Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.}. 



3. Blaauw Krantz, Cape Colony, Dec. B. E. Jupp, Esq. [C.]. 

 1. Grahamstown, Cape Colony, Feb. B. E. Jupp, Esq. [C.]. 



Estrilda cinerea ( Yield.}. 



Estrilda cinerea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 394 (1890) ; Reich. 



Vog. Afr. iii. p. 182 (1904); SMley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 203 (1905) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 452 (1909; ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 335 



(1910). 

 Habropyga cinerea, Kuschel, J.f. O. 1895, p. 338. 



Three eggs, said to be those of the Black -rumped Waxbill, 

 measure respectively : '56 by *43 ; -54 by *41 ; and '52 by "41. 



2. [N.E. Africa.] Crowley Bequest. 



1 [N.E. Africa] (Rey Coll}. Crowley Bequest. 



