900 MR. A. LOVElllDGE : NOTES ON 



placed on the path one afternoon at Nairobi, and the tortoises 

 were trying to get out. Some foi^ty birds collected, and evinced 

 the greatest interest, craning their necks this way and that and 

 utterin" cries. Twice a sunbird hovered close to the cage the 

 better lo observe. I noted ten species of birds tlirongh the 

 glasses, and they remained for half-an-hour, and only left beci\ use 

 disturbed ; therefore I h:ul ample opportunity of watching tliem. 

 The species represented were : — 



Nectarinia kilimensis Shell. 



Farus albiventris Shell. 



Serinus icterus Vieill. 



Serinus slriolatus afflnis Reichn. 



Passer (jriseus suaheliciis Neum. 



Floceus reichenotol Fisch. 



Ploceus spekei Heugl. 



Cossypha hettglini Hax-tl. 



Dioptrornis fischeri licli w. 



Calms slriatus kihuyuensls van Som. 



Nectarinii)^. 



OiNNYRis senegalensis iNii^sTiMATA Hartert. 



A nest containing two fresh eggs of the East African Purple- 

 shouldered Iled-breasted Black Sunbird was blown down from a 

 mango-tree in which it had been built (Kilosa, IS.vii. 21). 



A nest which was being built last month in a rhododendron- 

 bush within six feet of the verandah and seven feet from the 

 <rround, held two perfectly fresh eggs of a very pale colour to-day. 

 . Unfortunately in replacing it I cracked one. The bird, however, 

 continues to sit on the remaining egg. She leaves it a great 

 deal during the day, and on returning flies straight into the nest 

 from another bush thirty feet away ; hitherto I have never seen 

 her perched on the home bush (Kilosa, 27.xii. 21). 



Latterly I have seen the bird cling to the front of the nest 

 before entering. Within the past few days the ag^ has been 

 blown out of the nest ! (Kilosa, 1. i. 22 J. 



A month after the egg was blown down, the nest itself suflered 

 the same fate. The bird is now sitting on her new nest fastened 

 to the tip of a branch of a rubber-tree and about twelve feet from 

 the ground (Kilosa, 12. ii. 22). A nest containing young is sus- 

 pended from the tip of a branch of a big tree (Kilosa, 15.i.23). 

 A nest with two fresh eggs (Ilonga, 19. iv. 23). 



OrNNYuis i.ovKRiDOEi iraitert. 



During the month of May 1922 my native collector obtained 

 two adult males and two immature females of this species, hitherto 

 only known from a single male collected on 24. vi. 21. These 

 four specimens come from Bagilo, Uluguru Mtns., Tanganyika 



