Manchester Memoirs, Vol. It. (1907), No. 10. 71 



Bill, black ; iris, brownish-yellow ; feet, orange ; orbit, 

 brighter yellow in female than male, but yellow iris of 

 male markedly brighter than that of female. 



123. £ ad. Petauke. March 27, 1905. 



Bill, black ; iris, yellow ; feet, orange. 



Native name " Ngombeweniweni." In flocks in the 

 hilly country. 



I found this bird (No. 122) making a very pretty little 

 nest of fibre and dry grass ; the outside entirely covered 

 with white cobwebs, which gave it quite a silvery 

 appearance. There were several nests in a little clump of 

 trees, and it is evident that the bird breeds in colonies. 



The eggs -were four in number, and are of a pale 

 bluish-stone-colour, with spots and dots of reddish- and 

 purplish-brown, and with underlying larger spots of 

 purplish-grey. 



The eggs measure, axis from "8 to '85 ; diameter, "6. 



This appears to be the first record of the nest and 

 eggs of this species. 



151. Sigmodus tricolor. 



Priotiops tricolor, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), vol. 14, 



p. 379 (1864: Tete, Zambesi). 

 Sigmodus tricolor, Sharpe, "Cat. B. Brit. Mus.," vol. 3, p. 325; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1898, p. 379 (Zomba and Zomba Plains), 

 p. 554 (Chiradzula) ; W. L. Sclater, "Fauna S. Africa, 

 Birds," vol. 2, p. 50. 

 Sigmodus retzii tricolor, Reichen., " Vog. Afrikas," vol. 2, 

 P- 535- 

 59. £ ad. Petauke. Dec, 29, 1904. 

 Bill, yellow, the base red ; iris, orange ; feet, orange. 

 94. ? ad. Petauke. Feb. 23, 1905. 

 Bill, red, shading to yellow at tip ; iris, yellow ; feet, 

 salmon-red. 



