34 Mr. Ct. L. Bates — Field-Notes on the 



apparently witli its wings, like that made by the little Fly- 

 catchers DiaphorojjJii/ia and Platystira. This noise is made 

 only occasionally, and seems to be, like the song, an ex- 

 pression of amorous feelings, or made to attract attention. 



This Shrike shares with Laniarius luehderi the same native 

 name, and both are common birds of the "bikotok," though 

 their calls and actions are different (see ' The Ibis/ 1908, 

 p. 330). But the Laniarius hides its nest in some place 

 where it cannot be found, while I have come across several 

 of the Pomatorhynchus. One, on which the bird was caught, 

 sitting on two egiis, was the only one where I got the bird 

 and at the same time saved the eggs. The nest, like other 

 nests I have seen of this bird, was a very shallow cup of dry 

 leaf-petioles, grass and other stems, the finer ones inside. 

 It was rather slight and thin. One I found myself was set 

 on the forks of a cassava-stem. In my notebook I have 

 described the markings on these eggs (the two I saved) as 

 being like a lot of punctuation marks of print — commas, 

 hyphens, brackets, &c. — jumbled together. The size of these 

 eggs was 24 X 17 mm. 



[The two eggs are of a regular or slightly pointed oval 

 form and very slightly glossy. The ground-cohnir is pure 

 white, rather sparingly marked, especially round the larger 

 end, with small blotches and irregularly shaped spots and 

 lines of brown and various shades of grey. — O.-Cx.] 



113i. NicATOR CHLORis. [Ekoug, or Ntyong.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 334. 



This bird lives in the borders of the forest, or among the 

 higher trees of the second-growth, and generally keeps itself 

 well hidden, for when it comes to the light its sj)otted wings 

 make it conspicuous. The only sound ordinarily heard is a 

 scolding noise, which is imitated in the explosive nasal 

 sounds of the Bulu names. But on one occasion I watched 

 it sing a song, in a loud clear tone, consisting of quite a 

 variety of notes, some so much run together as to remind 

 me of the peculiar trill of the P omatorhynclius. The song 

 was uttered hiugiiidlv, a few notes at a time. 



