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Capitonidje. 



Lybius ai.bicauda albicauda Shell. 



Two Black-billed White Barbet nestlings were found in a hole 

 in the banks of the (dry) Shimiyu River at Sagayo on 8. xi. 22. 



PlCID^. 



Oampotiiera spp. 



My attention was attracted by the noise made by two 3'oung 

 woodpeckei'S in a. knot-hole of a thorn-tree in open thorn- 

 bush conntr}'. The yoimg were practically fledged and making 

 a liissing sound ; the nest-hole was only two feet from the ground 

 (Mtali's, 21.x. 21). 



Birds of another species, called " Kinente" in Kinyaturu, Avere 

 seen feeding their young in a nest-hole which they had made in 

 a branch some thirty feet from the ground. Both species had 

 red-hearled males and this specie's a black-heacled female (Mbonoa,. 

 29.ix.22). 



COLUMBID.E. 



Treron belalandei granti van Som. 



A new Avorm (Ascaridia fasciaia Baylis) Avas found in the 

 co-type specimen of the Coastal Green-tailed Green Pigeon shot 

 at Dar-es-Salaam, 7.xi. 18. 



Streptopelia semitorquata semitorquata lliipp. 



A nest containing tAA'O eggs remarkably different in size. One 

 measured 36x23 mm., the other 3i!x24mm. Both slightly 

 incubated (Kilosa, 22.Aa. 21). 



P S I T T A C I D ^. . 



Agapornis personaxus B-cliAv. 



Four Avhite eggs of the Yellow-breasted LoA^e-Bird measuring 

 22 X 17 mm. AA'ere taken from a hole in a baobab- tree at Mahaka,. 

 Dodoma, on 17. iv. 22. 



S T Rl GIDJE . 



Tyto alba affinis Blyth. 



A " nest " of the African Barn-OAvl Avas found beneath the 

 galvanized sheets forming the roof of a house ; the bird gained 

 admission through a small ventilating hole. Tavo fresh egg& 

 measuring 40 X 31 mm. were found on a huge accumulation of 

 pellets Avhich Avere mostl}' disintegrated. Besides the very com- 

 mon local rats {R. rattus alexandrinus and JR. coucha microdon) 

 there AA-ero the remains of a shrew (Crocidwa JJavescens). Some 



