hij Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 235 



[This Weaver-Finch was only found in tlie N.E. Transvaal 

 and the Gorongoza and Tete districts of the Portuguese 

 country. I have always seen it in flocks, often of consider- 

 able size, frequenting cultivated land in company with other 

 Weavers, and doing no inconsiderable damage to the crops 

 of grain, especially oats and native millet. It is a noisy bird, 

 and after being shot at becomes wild and wary. 



The soft parts are : — 



Ad. Irides hazel ; bill red ; legs and toes fleshy. 



Juv. Bill paler and duller; legs and toes horny brown.] 



QUELEA ERYTHROPS. 



Reiclmw. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 111. 



P. Beira, Dec. (11). 



This species is new to South Africa. It has not been 

 previously taken south of ]\Itoni in G° 30' S. in German East 

 Africa near Tanganyika. The type was from St. Thomas 

 Island. The present examjiles match West African birds in 

 the British Museum collection very well. I find that it has 

 lately been recorded from Pondoland by Gunning and 

 Ilaagner in their recently published ' Check-list of South 

 African Birds ' on p. 80. 



[The Red-headed Weaver was only found in the Beira 

 district, where it occurred in considerable flocks for about a 

 fortnight, and was undoubtedly on migration. It frequented 

 the vleis, where it fed on the seeds of the various grasses and 

 rushes. It was continually chattering wiien feeding or on 

 the wing, and was by no means wild. 



The soft parts are : — 



^ ad. Irides hazel ; bill dark horn-brown, somewhat paler 

 at ba«e of lower mandible; legs and toes fleshy brown. 



? ad. Bill, npj)er mandible pale horn-brown, lower 

 yellowish brown ; legs and toes paler than the male. 



(^ imni. luteriuediate in colour between ad. J" & ? , and 

 varying with advancing age.] 



67 a. Pyromelana oryx sundevalli. 



Tv. Woodbash, Pec, Jan. (5) ; Pietersburg, Feb. (2). 



Six nests, four with four eggs and two w ith three eggs, 



