360 ' rLocEinx. 



the markings are very faint and merely indicated by indistinct 

 cloudings of a darker shade. They vary in length from '73 to '83, 

 and in width from '53 to '57. 



7. E. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Sitagra zanthoptera, Finscli 4~ Hartl. 

 (Plate XV. figs. 11 & 12.) 



Ilyphantornis xanthopterus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 4 W (1890). 

 Ploceus xanthopterus, Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 94 (1004). 

 XanthophiUis xanthopterus, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 469 (1905). 

 Sitagra xanthoptera, Sharpe, liand-l. v. p. 477 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 Mersamml. p. 339 (1910J. 



The eggs of the Yellow-winged Weaver-Finch are of an elongate 

 oval shape, frequently almost elliptical, glossy, and of many types 

 of coloration. In one type, they are of an olive-green colour; in 

 a second, they are almost uniform chestnut-brown ; in a third, 

 they have the ground-colour pale-buff covered by a dense freckling 

 of chestnut-brown ; in a fourth the eggs are grey, very thickly 

 speckled all over with pale chestnut. They are very uniform in size, 

 measuring from '8 to -86 in length, and from -56 to -6 in breadth. 



10. Ruo River, British Central Africa, A. B. Percival, Esq. [C.]. 

 Feb. 



Sitagra galhula (J'^^j/y;.). 

 (Plate XV. figs. 14 & 15.) 



Ilyphantornis galbula, Heiiffl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 657 (1870); 



Terlury, Ibis, 1886, p.' 18; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 442 



(1890) ; Kuschel, J. /. O. 1 895, p. 331 . 

 Ploceus galbula, Reich, t'oi/. Afr. iii. p. 95 (1904). 

 Xanthophilus galbula, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 474 (1905). 

 Sitagra galbula, Sharpe, Hund-l. v. p. 477 (1909) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eier- 



samml. p. 339 (1910). 



The eggs of the Golden Weaver-Finch are of an elongate oval 

 shape and devoid of gloss. They are of two types : those with the 

 ground pale blue, and those with the ground white or creamy-white. 

 The pale blue eggs are either thickly speckled and spotted with 

 lilac and pale reddish-brown, or marked with numerous specks and 

 some spots of dark chocolate-brown or purplish-black and under- 

 lying pale purple. The white or cream-coloured eggs are either 

 heavily blotched and spotted with light red and purplish-grey, or 

 more finely marked with small spots and dots of purplish-brown 

 and lilac-grey. They measure from -8 to -88 in length, and from 

 •54 to "6 in breadth. 



3. Lahej, Aden, 15th April. Col. J. W. i'erbury [P 1 



1. I'^eviri) liogOBland (Th. Heiigliii). Crowley Bequest. 



