SIT AGRA. 357 



2. Kuruman. 19th Dec. R. B. Woosnam and 



R. E. Dent, Esqr.s. [C.]. 



2. Kuruman, 20th Dec. R. B. Woosnam and 



R. E. Dent, Esqrs. [C.]. 

 1. Kuruman, 3rd Feb. R. B. Woosnam and 



R. E. Dent, Esqrs. [C.]. 



1. Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, Major II. Sparrow [E.]. 

 17th Nov. 



3. Kroonstad, O. R. C., 1st Dec. Major R. Sparrow [E.]. 

 9. Transvaal (T. Ay res : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



1. Transvaal (7'. A.: Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



5. Johannesburg, Dec. C. C. Roberts, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Crocodile River, 20 miles west J. A. Bucknill, Esq. [P.]. 



of Pretoria, Dec. ( C. B. Ilors- 

 bruyh). 



Sitagra auricapilla, Sivains. 

 (Plate XV. fig. 1.) 



Ilvphantornis velatus, Gurney (necVieill.}, in Andersson's Birds Damara- 

 land, p. 1G9 (1872) ; S/iarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 464 (1890) ; 

 Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 58 (1900) [part.]. 



Ploceus auricapillus, Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 79 (1904). 



Jlyphantoniis tahatali, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 408 (1905). 



Sitagra auricapilla, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 474 (1909). 



Eggs of the Damaraland Black-fronted Weaver-Finch are indis- 

 tinguishable from those of S. velata, the same varieties as those 

 described above being found among the series. 



13. Damaraland (C. J. Andersson : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



2. Ondongo, Ovampoland, 12th Crowley Bequest. 



March (C. J. A.: Tristram 

 Coll.). 



2. Ondongo (C. J. A.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.). 



Sitagra uluensis (Neumann). 

 (Plate XV. fig. 4.) 



Hyphantornis vitellinus, Sharpe (nee Licht.), Ibis, 1891, p. 254; Jackson, 



Ibis, 1899, p. 616 ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 442 (1905) [part.]. 

 Hyphantornis uluensis, Neumann, J.f. O. 1900, p. 282. 

 Ploceus vitellinus uluensis, Xeich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 82 (1904). 

 Sitagra uluensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 474 (1909). 



An egg of the Ulu Weaver-Finch is of a regular oval shape and 

 without gloss. The ground is pale blue, with dots and rounded 

 spots of sepia-brown and lilac, rather larger and more numerous 

 towards the broad end. It measures '74 by '54. 



1. Kamassia Mts., B. E. Africa, 12th F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 

 July. 



