30 Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 



1016 a. Alseonax epulatus ?antisiensis. [Kula, or 

 Okulebe.] 



Alseonax f ant esiensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1907^ p. 445. 



No. 2330. ^. Bitye, R. Ja, March 11, 1907. Testes 

 large. Feet dark ; mandible dark-tipped. 



This specimen is recorded here because it was brought to 

 me along with its nest, in which were two very young birds. 

 These the boy said were being fed when he shot the parent 

 with his bow and arrow. The nest was peculiar in that it 

 was large and bulky for so small a bird, though the inside 

 was a small cup lined with fine fibies, very much like tlie 

 nests of Tchitrea and otlier common Flycatchers, But the 

 outside part was a mass of dried moss, leaves, tiny sticks, 

 and lichens, loosely piled, but held together by cobwebs 

 running through it. The nestlings were naked except for 

 some tufts of long brown down. 



Dr. Sharpe is certainly right in saying that this form is 

 distinct from Alseonax epulatus, with its yellow feet and 

 mandible, though they are both found at the Ja, as well as 

 about Efuleu. 



1024 a. FCEDILOUHYXCHUS STUHLMANNI CAMEKUNENSIS. 



[Kula.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 447. 



In my note in ' The Ibis ' (/. c.) I spoke of the eggs of this 

 bird found in old Weavers' nests. I have to record two 

 eggs again found in the old nest of Heterhxjphantes nigricollis, 

 which had been supplied with a new lining of dry grass- 

 blades or shreds of palm-leaf. These eggs measured the 

 same as the former, 20*5 x 13 mm. I am glad to be able to 

 give Mr. Grant's description, as my statement of the colour 

 of the eggs in the former note may have been wide of the 

 mark. 



[Four eggs are of a long, slightly pointed oval form and 

 moderately glossy ; three examples are uniform light olive- 

 brown, but the fourth is densely and indistinctly marked 

 all over, especially at the broader end, with yellowish- 

 brown. — O.-G.] 



