BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
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HyPHANTORNIS ABYSSINICUS ABYSSINICUS (Gmelin). 
L o’, El Mesharat, Blue-Nile, 4 Jan. 
Fairly common, in small flocks around durrah fields. 
XANTHOPHILUS GALBULA Riippell. 
1 @ and 2 Q’s, Singa, Blue-Nile, 27 Dec.; Magangani, 26 Jan. 
Common. ‘This is the species which Butler (Ibis, 1905) describes 
as the commonest weaver, but the great flocks seemed to us to be 
mostly Quelea, the Red-billed weaver. 
EULABETIDAE. 
LAMPROTORNIS PURPUROPTERUS AENEOCEPHALUS Heuglin. 
1 o&, Gabardi, Blue-Nile, 31 Dec. 
Tail, 8 inches, tail feathers, 7.3 inches. This is maximum accord- 
ing to the Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, but less than 
Butler’s maximum for Kordofan birds (Ibis, 1905, p. 324). 
Very common. 
LAMPROCOLIUS CHALYBEUS CHALYBEUS (Hemprich & Ehrenberg). 
1 o&, Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 10 Jan. 
Common in small flocks around villages. 
LAMPROCOLIUS CHLOROPTERUS SCHRADERI Neumann. 
1 9, Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 10 Jan. 
An immature bird; w. 111, cul. 18, tail feathers, 69, tarsus, 24. 
SPREO PULCHER (P. L. S. Miiller). 
1 o, Singa, Blue-Nile, 25 Feb. 
Only seen a few times; apparently does not occur far south. 
ORIOLUS CHRYSEOS (Heuglin). 
1 9, Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 19 Jan. 
