346 PLOCEIDJ5. 



Uraeginthus damarensis, Reichenow. 



Mariposa cyanogastra, Gurney, in Anderss. Birds Damaral. p. 179 



(1872). 



Uraeginthus bengalus damarensis, Reich. Voy. Afr. iii. p. 209 (1904). 

 Uraeginthus damarensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 457 (1909). 



Two eggs of the Damaralarid Cordon-bleu measure respectively : 

 55 by *45, and -52 by -42. 



2 (out of 4). Ondonga, Ovampoland, Crowley Bequest. 

 29th Mar. (C. J. Andersson: 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Genus SPOROPIPES, Cabanis. 



Sporopipes squamifrons (Smith). 



(Plate XIV. figs. 10 & 12.) 



Sporopipes squamifrons, Gurney, in Anderss. Birds Damaral. p. 177 

 (1872); Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. p. 451 (1875-84); 

 id., Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 407 (1890) ; Kuschel, J, f. O. 1895, 

 p. 336 ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 86 (1900) ; Reich. Toy. 

 Afr. iii. p. 16 (1904); Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 298 (1905); 

 Roberts, J. S. Afr. Orn. U. ii. p. 11 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 457 (1909). 



Four eggs of the Scaly-fronted Weaver-bird are of a slightly 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. In three the ground-colour 

 is pale greenish-white heavily blotched over the greater part of the 

 shell with ash-brown and dull lilac ; with a few scattered spots 

 and twisted scrawls of darker brown. In the fourth the ground- 

 colour is pale blue heavily mottled and clouded, especially about the 

 larger end, with dark lilac-grey with rather indistinct and blurred 

 umber-brown spots and markings round the middle. They measure 

 respectively : -65 by -46 ; -63 by -46 ; '61 by 45 ; -6 by -43. 



1. Bloemfontein, O.R.C. (B. Hors- Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 



brugh). 

 3. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(T. Ay res: Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MALIMBUS, Vieill. 

 Malimbus rubricollis (Swains.). 



Malimbus rubricollis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 478 (1890) ; 

 Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 19 (1904) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 346 

 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 460 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 335 (1910> 



An egg of Swainson's Malimbe is of a regular oval shape, slightly 

 pointed at one end, and devoid of gloss. It is uniform pale blue, 

 and measures '86 by '61. 



1. Seuegambia (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest, 



