102 EINAR LÖNNBERG, BTRDS. 



A female shot i U 1911 near Luazomela river while in copula has somewhat richer 

 colours: Dull olive green above with broad blackish brown centers to the feathers, upper 

 tail coverts more olive yellow, wing coverts with påle yellow, or yellowish white edges, quills 

 edged with ohve yellow, lower parts yellow, richest on the breast, palest in the center of 

 the belly, and on the tail coverts. 



On the acacia-steppe at the upper Luazomela this bird bred in colonies. Certain 

 acacias near the little river or at so me swamps formed by the same were simply covered 

 by nests. The first days of Febr. some of these nests were not yet complete, while in some 

 others eggs were laid. These eggs were unspotted rather dark greenish blue and rather 

 variable in shape, sometimes more ovate sometimes more oblong. The dimensions of 

 some ovate eggs are: 23,2x16,3; 23,4x15,2; 22,8x15,4; 23,4x15,4; 24,7X16,9 mm.; and of 

 some more oblong 25,oxl4,7; 25,8x14,6 mm. (conf. Pl. III, fig. 2). 



As the distribution of this species extends from Shoa and Somaliland to Kilimanjaro 

 it is a member of the northeastern fauna, although not exactly typical as such. 



Ploceus xanthops (Hartl.). 



Rchw. III, p. 88. 



Single specimens of this bird were seen and shot near Nairobi. Length of wing in a 

 male specimen 95, length of tail 69, and culmen 20 mm. It is thus evidently not the small- 

 er subspecies camburni, 1 although this first has been f ound at Nairobi. 



It was also observed at a small river between Kagio and Kutu, at Punda Melia and 

 some other places usually near water. 



It is very widely distributed in tropical Africa. 



Amblyospiza unicolor Fschr. Rchw. 



Rchw. III, p. 99. 



The first time this bird was found in some scattered trees standing in Solanum-ihick- 

 ets at the Limuru road outside Nairobi. 



At the end of March a little colony was found building their nests among the reeds 

 in a small swamp at a little rivulet running through shambas at Fort Hall. Sometimes 

 the birds visited scattered trees in the shambas, and a pair was thus secured. This male 

 had no white on the forehead. 



Quelea sanguinirostris sethiopica (Sund.). 



Rchw. III, p. 109. 



I shot half a dozen birds of this kind out of a great swarm at Guaso Nyiri below Chan- 

 ler Falls. The males had not yet attained full plumage, although some of them were very 

 near to it c 3 1911. The birds were observed at the same place some days låter as well, 

 and it is possible that they had selected certain trees (acacias) for nest-building but they 



1 Ogilvie Grant regards this subsp. ideutical with 1'. xanthops. 



