SITAGEA. FOUDIA. ' 361 



2. Harrar, S. Ab3'ssinia, 9th June. Mr. P. Zapliiro [C.l. 



2. Harrar, lOtli June. Mr. P. Zaphiro [C.\ 



3. Harrar, 13th June. " ~ " '' 



4. Wad Medina, Blue Nile, 20th 



Sept. 



4. Wad Medina, 20th Sept. Capt. H. N. Dunn [P.]. 



Mr. P. Zaphiro \C.\ 

 Mr. P. Zaphiro [C.l. 

 Capt. H. N. Dunn IP.]. 



Sitagra castanops (Shelley). 



(Plate XV. fig. 13.) 



Hyphantonils castanops, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 443 (1890). 

 Ploceus castanops, BeicJi. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 96 (1904). 

 Xanthophilus castanops, Shelley, Birds Afr. iv. p. 471 (1905). 

 Sitagra castanops, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 477 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 

 samml. p. 339 (1910). 



Three eggs of the Nile Brown-throated Weaver-Finch vary in 

 shape, two being of a rather pointed oval form and the third a perfect 

 ellipse. They are without gloss, and the ground-colour in all three 

 is pinkish-white ; the elliptical egg is almost unmarked, but the 

 other two are covered with fine indistinct markings of pinkish- 

 brown and yellowish-brown, most dense towards the larger end 

 where they form a cloudy cap. They measure respectively : '86 by 

 •59 ; -8 by -58 ; and -74 by -55. 



3. Entebbe, Uganda, 6th April. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [C.]. 



Genus FOUDIA, Eeichenl. 

 Foudia madagascariensis {Linn.). 



Foudia madagascariensis, Cowan, Proc. JR. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. p. 149 

 (1882) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birda B. M. xiii. p. 433 (1890) ; Shelley, Birds 

 Afr. iv. p. 488 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 478 (1909) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Mersamml. p. 339 (1910). 



Ploceus madagascariensis, Milne-Pdicards Sf Grandidier, Hist. Nat. 

 Madag., Ois. ii. p. 449, pi. 304. fig. 9 (.1885). 



The eggs of the Madagascar Weaver-Finch are of a pointed oval 

 form, fairly glossy, and of a very pale blue colour. They measure 

 from -67 to -78 in length, and from -53 to -55 in breadth. One 

 specimen which is almost spherical in shape measures '61 by "57. 



4. Madagascar {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



4. Madagascar {Xev. W. Deans W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Cowan). [P.]. 



12. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



2. Ma-a-ntius (E. Newton: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Lucia, Mauritiu.'?, April (i'. N, : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



