426 



EtTLABETlD-S. 



2. Ovampoknd, Damaivaland, March 

 (C. J. Andersson: Tristram 

 Coll.). 



1. N'Ltalla Tando, N. Augola, 26th 

 Oct. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge [C], 



Genus SPRBO, Lesson. 



Spreo bicolor (Gmel.). 

 (Plate XIX. figs. 4 & 6.) 



Lamprotornis bicolor, Thien. Fortpjlanz, ges. Vog. tab. xxxviii. fig. 9 

 (1845-54). 



Spreo bicolor, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 429 (] 875-84) ; 

 Butler, Feilden ^ Meid, Zoul. 1882, p. 25a ; tSharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xiii. p. 187 (1890); Kusc/iel, J.f. O. 1895, p. 330: Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 123 (1899), p. 352 (1910) ; Stark, Fauna 8. Afr., 

 Birds, i. p. 30 (1900) ; Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 073 (1903) ; Shelley, 

 Birds Afr. v. p. 85 (lOOtJ) ; Haayner ^ log, Journ. S. Afr. Orn. 

 Union, iii. p. 78 (1907) ; Biwkmll, Journ. S. Afr. Orn. Union, iv. 

 p. 75 (1908) ; Sharpe, Rand-l. v. p. 542 (1909). 



The eggs of the Oommon Cape Tree-Starling are mostly of a 

 pointed oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a deep bluish- 

 green colour, the majority being plain, and others spotted with pale 

 lilac-red. They measure from 1-14 to 1'3 in length, and from •(b2 to 

 •9 in breadth. 



3. South Africa. 



3. South Africa. 



4. South Africa. 

 4. South Africa. 



1. Cape Colony {T. C. Atmore : 



'Tristram Coll.). 



2. Caue Colony (F. L. L. . Tristram 



'Coll.). 

 4. Howiespoort, Cape Colony, 5th 

 Dec. (X. Palmer). (With one 

 egg of Indicator major.) 



3. Howiespoort, 28th Dec. {B. E. J.). 



(Witti one egg of Indicator 



major.) 

 1. Deelfonteiu, Cape Colony, 23rd 



Nov. (C. H. B. Grant \ F. C. 



Seimund). 

 1. Kurumau, British Bechuanaland, 



2nd Jan. 



4. Kuruman, 2nd Jan. 



6. Natal (T. ^yres: Tristram Coll.). 



4. Ladysmith, Natal, Nov. 



5. Amersfoort, E. Transvaal, Got. 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. Kadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



B. E. Jupp, Esq. [P.]. 



B. E. Jupp, Esq. [P.]. 



Colonel A. T. Sloggett [P.]. 



B. B. Wooanam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [0. ]. 

 R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Ecqrs. [C.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Capt. Savile G. Reid [0.]. 

 lion. J. A. Buclmill [P.]. 



