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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
[Tills Weaver-Finch was only found in the N.E. Transvaal 
and the Gorongoza and Tete districts of the Portuguese 
country. I have always seen it in flocks, often of consider¬ 
able size, frequenting cultivated land in company with other 
Weavers, and doing no inconsiderable damage to the crops 
of grain, especially oats and native millet. It is a noisy bird, 
and after being shot at becomes wild and wary. 
The soft parts are :— 
Ad, Irides hazel; bill red ; legs and toes fleshy. 
Juv. Bill paler and duller; legs and toes horny brown.] 
Quelea erythrqps. 
Eeichnw. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 111. 
Po Beira, Dec. (11). 
This species is new to South Africa. It has not been 
previously taken south of Mtoni in 6° 30' S. in German East 
Africa near Tanganyika. The type was from St. Thomas 
Island. The present examples match West African birds in 
the British Museum collection very well. I find that it has 
lately been recorded from Pondoland by Gunning and 
Haagner in their recently published 4 Check-list of South 
African Birds 9 on p. 80. 
[The Bed-headed Weaver was only found in the Beira 
district, where it occurred in considerable flocks for about a 
fortnight, and was undoubtedly on migration. It frequented 
the vleis, where it fed on the seeds of the various grasses and 
rushes. It was continually chattering when feeding or on 
the wing, and was by no means wild. 
The soft parts are :— 
$ ad. Irides hazel; bill dark horn-brown, somewhat paler 
at base of lower mandible; legs and toes fleshy brown. 
$ ad. Bill, upper mandible pale horn-brown, lower 
yellowish brown; legs and toes paler than the male. 
£ imm. Intermediate in colour between ad. $ & $ , and 
varying with advancing age.] 
67 a. Pyromelana oryx sundevalli. 
Tv. Woodbush, Dec., Jan. (5); Petersburg, Feb. (2). 
Six nests, four with four eggs and two with three eggs. 
