346 PLOCEID^. 



Urseginthus damarensis, lieichenoiv. 



Mariposa cyaiiogastra, Gwney, in Anderss. Sirds Damaral. p. 179 



(1872). 

 Urseginthus bengalus damarensis, Reich. VSij. Afr. iii. p. 209 (1904). 

 Uraeginthiis damarensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 457 (1909). 



Two eggs of the Damaraland Cordon-bleu measure respectively : 

 •55 by •45, and -52 by -42. 



2 (out of 4). Ondonga, Ovampoland, Crowley Bequest. 

 29th Mar. ( V. J. Anderssun : 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Genus SPOKOPIPES, Cabanis. 



Sporopipes squamifrons (Smith). 



(Plate XIV. figs. 10 & 12.) 



Sporopipes squamifrons, Ourney, in Anderss. Birds Damaral. p. 177 

 (1872); Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. p. 451 (1875-84); 

 id., Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 407 (1890) ; Kiischel, J. f. O. 1895, 

 p. 336; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 86 (1900) ; Beic/i. Vor/. 

 Afr. iii. p. 16 (1904); Shelky, Birds Afr. iv. p. 298 (1905); 

 Roberts, J. S. Afr. Orn. U. ii. p. 11 (1906) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 457 (1909). 



Four eggs of the Scaly-fronted Weaver-bird are of a slightly 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. In three the ground-colour 

 is ])alo greenish-white heavily blotched over the greater part of the 

 shell with ash-brown and dull lilac ; with a few scattered spots 

 and twisted scrawls of darker brown. In the fourth the ground- 

 colour is pale blue heavily mottled and clouded, especially about the 

 larger end, with dark lilac-grey with rather indistinct and blurred 

 umber-brown spots and markings round the middle. They measure 

 respectively : -65 by -46 ; -63 by -46 ; -61 by 45 ; -6 by •43. 



1. Bloemfontein, O.R.C. (B. Hors- Hon. J. A. Bucknill [P.]. 



brugh). 

 3. Potohefstroom, Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(T. Ayres : Tristram Coll.). 



Genus HALIMBUS, Vieill. 



Malimbus rubricollis (Swains.). 



Malimbus rubricollis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 478 (1890) ; 

 Reich. Voy. Afr. iii. p. 19 (1904) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 346 

 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 460 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Biersamml, 

 p. 335 (1910). 



An egg of Swainson's Malimbe is of a regular ovalsbape, slightly 

 pointed at one end, and devoid of gloss. It is uniform pale blue, 

 and measures •SB by -Gl. 



1. Senegamhi-A (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest, 



