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leaves of the Calamus palm^ laid or woven together loosely, 

 with an opening at one side^ and lined with a few fine 

 grass-tops. 



The three eggs (Nos. 536, 537, & 538) fonnd in the nest 

 are white, without gloss, and measure respectively : — 20 x 14<, 

 19-5 X 14, and 19 x 14 mm. 



QUKLEA ERYTIIROPS. 



Reiclienow, V. A. iii. p. 111. 



No. 3133. S ■ Bitye, February 1909. 



This single specimen, the only one I ever saw, was shot 

 with bow and arrow by my boys, who said it was in a flock 

 with other small Weaver-birds. 



Pyromelana flammiceps. [Kuleso.] (Plate XI. fig. 8, 



I have mentioned {' Ibis,' 1909, p. 49) the characteristic 

 of the nests of the KulesO; that the entrance or vestibule 

 appears unfinished. Of several nests found since, three 

 had no continuous tube at all, but consisted only of the 

 sack part, woven in connexion with a vertical wreath 

 attached to the weed-twigs, which formed the foundation 

 of the nest. 



Witli one nest, containing two eggs, were brought two 

 fetnale birds, both said to have been caught in the nest at 

 night. One had a marked brood-spot, the other had none, 

 but was found on dissection to have recently laid eggs. 

 As the eggs were alike in every particular, and both partly 

 incubated, they must have belonged to the bird with the 

 brood-spot. The other seems to have gone into the wrong 

 nest for the night. 



A nestling, beginning to get its feathers, had the inside 

 of the mouth deep fleshy-red and the swollen margin of the 

 gape white. Very young nestlings had the colour inside 

 the mouth not nearly so bright. 



Of five clutches of eggs saved since those previously 

 reported, three consisted of two eggs each, two of three 

 each. The measurements of these vary from 19 to 175 mm. 

 in length and from 145 to 13 mm. in breadth. 



[Some of the spcciaicns recently collected are uniform 



