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oval form and devoid of gloss. The ground is pale greenish-blue, 

 in one instance creamy-white, and the markings are of three 

 different types: (1) finely and closely freckled all over with dull 

 purplish-brown and lilac-grey ; (2) thickly blotched and spotted 

 with the same colours, the markings being concentrated towards 

 the larger end and forming a more or less irregular cap ; (3) rather 

 sparingly marked with distinct rounded spots, marks, and blotches 

 of deep chocolate-brown and pale lilac. They vary from '76 to '86 

 in length, and from '55 to -58 in breadth. 



Entebbe, Uganda, March. 



Entebbe, March. 



Entebbe, March. 



Entebbe, March. 



Entebbe, March. 



Elgeyu, Kamassia Mts., 13. E. 



Africa, 3rd March. 

 Elgeyu, 1 1th July. 

 Elgeyu, 14th August. 

 Elgeyu, 14th August. 

 Elgeyu, 14th August. 

 Elgeyu, 14th August. 

 Witu, 13. E. Africa (Dr. Fischer). 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. |C.~ 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. j C. 

 E. J. Jackson, Esq. C. 

 E. J. Jackson, Esq. 



E. J. Jackson, Esq. u 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. C. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 

 :. fC.1. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra dimidiata, Antin. $ Salvad. 



Ilyphantornis dimidiatus, Antin. $ Salcad. Atti R. Acad. Torino, 1873, 



p. 300; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 436 (1905). 

 Ilyphantornis fischeri, Skarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 458 (1890) ; 



Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 332. 

 Tloceus fischeri, Meich. Voy. Afr. iii. p. 70 (1904). 

 Sitagra dimidiata, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 472 (1909). 

 Sitagra fischeri, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. D. 472 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 



samml. p. 338 (1910). 



Eggs of Fischer's Weaver-Finch are stated by Nehrkorn to display 

 the same amount of variation as those of S. jacksoni described above. 

 The only specimen in the Collection has the ground greenish-blue, 

 and is densely and rather faintly freckled all over with pale umber 

 and grey. It measures '77 by '55. 



1. East Africa. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra melanocephala (Linn.}. 



Ilyphantornis melanocephalus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 457 

 (1890) ; Kendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 220 ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 439 

 (1905). 



Ploceus melanocephalus, Reich. To//. Afr. iii. p. 71 (1904). 



Sitagra melanocephala, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 472 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 JEiersamml. p. -328 (1910). 



Three eggs of the Black-headed Weaver-Finch are of a narrow 

 elongate oval shape, somewhat glossy, and of three distinct types of 



