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oval form and devoid of gloss. The ground is pale greenish-blue, 

 ill one instance ercamy-white, and the markings are of three 

 different types: (1) finely and clusely freckled all over with dull 

 purplish-brown and lilac-grey ; (2) thickly blotched and spotted 

 with the same colours, the markings being concentrated towards 

 the larger end and forming a more or lesg irregular cap ; (3) rather 

 sparingly marked with distinct rounded spots, marks, and blotches 

 of deep chocolate-brown and pale lilac. They vary from '76 to '8Q 

 in length, and from '55 to -58 in breadth. 



3. Entebbfi, Uganda, March. 

 2. Entebbe, March. 



2. Entebbe, March. 



2. Entebbe, March. 



2. Entebbe, March. 



2. Elgeyu, Kamassia Mts., B. E. 



Africa, 3rd March. 



2. Elgeyu, 1 1th July. 



6. Elgeyu, 14th Augu.'it. 



2. Elgeyu, 14th August. 



2. Elgeyu, 14th August. 



2. Els'evu, 14th August. 



4. Witu, B. E. Africa {Dr. Fischer). 



F. .T. Jackson, Esq. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



E. J. Jackson, Esq. 



F. .T. Jackson, Esq. 

 F. J. Jack.son, F.sq, 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



F. J. Jackson, Rsq. [C.]. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [0.]. 

 P. J. Jackson, Esq. C.]. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.l. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. [O.j. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra dimidiata, Antin. 4' Salvad. 



Hyphantornis dimidiatus, Antin. §• Sakad. Atti JR. Acad. Torino, 1873, 



p. 360; Shelley, Birds Afr. iy. p. 436 (1905). 

 Hyphantornis fischeri, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 458 (1890) ; 



Kuschel, J.J. O. 1895, p. 332. 

 rioceus fischeri, Meich. For/. Afr. iii. p. 70 (1904). 

 Sitagra dimidiata, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 472 (1909). 

 Sitagra fischeri, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. n. 472 (1909): Nehrk. Kat. Mer- 



samml. p. 338 (1910). 



Eggs of Fischer's Weaver-Finch are stated by Nehrkorn to display 

 the same amount of variation as those of S. jaclcsoni described above. 

 The only specimen in the Collection has the ground greenish-blue, 

 and is densely and rather faintly freckled all over with pale umber 

 aud grey. It measures -77 by -55. 



1. East Africa. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra melanocephala {Linn.). 



Hyphantornis melanocephalus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B M. xiii p 457 

 (1890) ; Rendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 220; Slielley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 439 

 (1905). 



Ploceus melanocephalus, lieich. J'o//. Afr. iii. p. 71 (1904). 



Sitagra melanocephala, Sharpe, Haiid-l. v. p. 472 (1909)'; NehrJc Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 3-:i8 (1910). 



Three eggs of the Black-headed Weaver-Pinch are of a narrow 

 elongate oval shape, somewhat glossy, and of three distinct types of 



