Birds from the White Nile. 403 
[The African Drongo is very common south of Kaka^ but 
rare further north. Its song is very cheerful. It begins to 
sing just before daylight and does not cease till after sunset. 
I took three nests with eggs in April. Two of them 
contained three eggs each^ but those in the several nests 
were of a different colour. One clntch was pale terra-cotta, 
clonded with darker terra-cotta on the large end; another 
clutch was white, spotted with small purplish-brown spots. — 
R. M. H.] 
7. Steganura paradisea. 
Steganura paradisea (Linn.) ; Grants Ibis, 1900, p. 123. 
a. S imni. (?). Kaka, 29th Aprih No. 409. 
b,c. S 'i imm. (?). Ed-Duem, 23rd May. Nos. 563, 564. 
Iris hazel ; bill and legs horn-coloured. 
This species appears to breed throughout the year in 
the various parts of its wide range, for the British Museum 
Collection contains male birds in full breeding-dress shot in 
every month of the year except January and October, as will 
be seen from the following list : — 
Rustenburg, Transvaal : 25th November. 
Tati, Limpopo River : 30th April. 
Nyasaland: February^ May, June, July, August, September. 
Somaliland : 2nd December. 
Abyssinia : March, May. 
Loando : July. 
The males shot by Mr. Hawker, which are apparently 
immature birds, are in the garb of the female. All three 
specimens are in full moult, and the new flight-feathers as 
well as the middle tail-feathers have been renewed j the 
latter are not, however, longer than the outer pairs. 
[The Paradise Whydah-Finch was not common. I never 
saw any with the long tail-feathers. — R. M. H.] 
8. Urobrachya phcenicea. 
Urobrachya phoRnicea (Heugl.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiii. p. 225 (1890). 
a. S' Fashoda, 22nd March. No. 165. 
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