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which tlie notes "have a clear^ ringiug tone that is pleasing.'* 

 as I said previously (' The Ibis/ 1905, p. 97) without knowing 

 the species certainly. 



Besides the nest with eggs already reported C The Ibis/ 

 1907, p. 46.2), another has been found. This was on a 

 yam- vine in an old garden. Tliere were two eggs in it, 

 Avhich measured 2V5 X 15 mm. and 22 x 15 mm. 



[Two eggs of a nearly perfect oval shape ; the ground-colour 

 is pinkish-white, marked all over with rather obscure longi- 

 tudinal reddish-brown markings and densely freckled and 

 indistinctly clouded with obscure purplish-grey markings. — 

 O.-G.] 



Andropadus efulexsis. [Otok.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 461. 



No. 2802. ? ; abdomen, ovary, &c. indicating a sitting 

 bird. Shot on the nest. 



The ^'Otok^' with the yelloAV moustachial streaks is some- 

 times called " Otok afan/^ that is, " forest Otols" because it 

 is more inclined than the other species to the forest ; but it 

 is not strictly a forest-bird. Its notes, which it utters with 

 great persistency while hidden in a thicket, are not musical, 

 and deserve the name of jioise or racket rather than of song. 

 The yellow streaks down the sides of the throat, as is the 

 case with all such markings in birds, are more conspicuous 

 in life than in the skin. This species spreads out the 

 plumage of the chin and throat, giving the fullest effect to 

 the yellow feathers. 



The nest (on which No. 2802 was shot) was a rough oblong 

 cup of dried leaves and Aveed-stems, with fine horsehair-like 

 vegetable fibre for lining, about 65 and 45 mm. on the 

 inside diameters. Two eggs were in it, which measured 

 23'5 X 16 mm. and 24 x 16"5 mm. 



[Tw^o eggs are of a slightly pointed oval shape and slightly 

 glossy ; the ground-colour is white, rather sparingly spotted 

 all over with purplish-brown and grey and with some larger 

 blotches of paler and darker grey round the large end. — 

 O.-G.] 



