W. E. OGILVIE-GEAJN^T— AVES. 279 



[A few examples of the Nile Brown-throated Weaver were seen at Fort Portal. 

 They were breeding in July ; their nests, rather small in size and almost perfectly 

 round, were composed of fine strips of grass and creepers not very compactly woven 

 together. There were five or six nests hanging from the boughs of a small tree, but 

 only one pair of birds appeared to inhabit the tree. — R. B. W.] 



HypHAifTORNis suPEECiLiosus (Shelley). 

 Ploceus superciUosus Eeich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 96 (1904) . 



Pachyphantes superciUosus Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 448 (1905). 



d. 

 a-e. 6 ? . Fort Beni, Semliki Valley, 3000 ft., 22nd July. [Nos. 490. R. E. D. ; 



1741. D. C; 2422, 2423, 2424. G. Z.] 



Iris brown or dark brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible grey ; feet brown. 



When volume xiii. of the ' Catalogue of the Birds ' was written the series of 

 examples of this species in the British Museum included only West- African specimens, 

 which ranged from the Gold Coast to the Loango Coast and northwards to Shonga on 

 the River Niger. The species is known, however, to occur in Liberia and to extend 

 eastwards to the Lakes. There are four examples in the Jackson Collection from 

 Lewekala, in Uganda, killed in the month of August, and these, like the July specimens 

 in the present collection, are in full or nearly full breeding-plumage. 



[The Compact Weaver was only met with in the neighbourhood of Fort Beni, where 

 it was not uncommon. — R. B. W.'] 



SiTAGKA ALIENA Sharpe. (Plate XIX. fig. 18, egg.) 



Sitagra aliena Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 21 (1902) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 565 



[Ruwenzori] . 

 Ploceus alienus Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 68 (1904). 

 Hyphanturgus alienus Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 392, pi. xxxix. fig. 2 (1905). 



a-h. d ? et d ? imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., 5th-20th Jan. 



[Nos. 65, 68, 8i, 86, 117. R. E. B.; 1103, llie, 1139. D. C] 



i,k. c? S. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6500-7000 ft., 6th & 11th Feb. 

 [Nos. 2145, 2154. G. L.] 



l-s. c? ? et c? ? imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 7000-9000 ft., 8th-26th 



March. [Nos. 194. R. E. D.; 1369, 1370. Z*. (7. ; 22i5, 2244, 2245, 2249. G.L.; 

 3235. R. B. W.'] 



Iris red or dark red ; bill black ; feet brown, blue-grey, or slate-colour. 



A fine series of this handsome Weaver was collected in all stages of plumage from 

 the quite young bird to the fully adult. Descriptions of some of these plumages will 



