Birds from Southern Abyssinia. 567 



Professor Neumann obtained four examples at Gelo and 

 Kucha. The Boyd Alexander collection contains a series 

 from West Africa, and the more southern part of its ranges. 



31. Ploceipasser melanorhynchus. 



Plucepasser melanorhynchus Riipp.; Shelley^ iv. p. 328 

 (1905). 



Ptocepasser mahali melanorhynchus Neumann, J. f. O. 

 1905, p. 336. 



The Black-billed Sparrow-Weaver was procured at Lake 

 Rudolf, Uba, Lake Koya, and Lake Zwai, I may here 

 remark that Mr. F.C. Selous has recently obtained two egg 

 of this species on the Guaso Nyiro, and has kindly pre- 

 sented them to the British Museum, where they were 

 hitherto unrepresented. 



They are of a rather long and regular oval shape, thickly 

 and finely mottled all over the shell wath pinkish-brown 

 surface-dots and pale grey undermarkings, the latter being- 

 somewhat larger. They measure respectively 23'5 x 17 mm. 

 and 22 X 17 mm. 



32. QUELEA ERYTHROPS. 



Quelea erythrops (Hartl.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 117 (1905). 



This scarlet-headed Dioch was only met with in Baku, 

 where both male and female were obtained on the 19th- 

 21st July. The occurrence of this bird in southern Abys- 

 sinia greatly extends its known range in East Africa, which 

 is given by Reichenow as ''Lake Albert to Useguha"; 

 while Shelley says '^ Zanzibar district, south from the Tana 

 River.'' 



33. Quelea yETHiopicA. 



Quelea athiopica (Sundev.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 114 (1905). 



Among the series of Diochs procured by Zaphiro at 

 Baku, the Omo River, the north end of Lake Rudolf and 

 Lake Stefanie, Walamo, and in the vicinity of Addis 

 Abbaba, there are but few males in breeding-plumage, most 

 of the specimens being out of plumage or immature. From 

 Baku, Lake Rudolf, and localities at the north end of 



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