70 Mr. G. L. Bates— Fie/d-Notes on the 



[Six eggs are of a nearly perfect oval form aud distinctly 

 glossy. The ground-colour is pale bluish-green or greenish- 

 white, either blotched and clouded, especially round the 

 larger end, with pale light red and grey, or minutely and 

 densely freckled all over with pale light red, forming a 

 more or less distinct zone round the larger end. — O.-G.J 



2073. Apalis binotata. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 320. 



This rather rare little bird has been obtained only at the 

 Ja. There it is found in the open country of old clearings, 

 where it has been seen in small trees, or in the tangle of 

 vines hanging from trees, hopping and flitting from twig 

 to twig, looking for insects. 



No. 1488 was shot with bow and arrow in its nest, and 

 the bird and the nest brought to me. The latter was a 

 loosely woven little pocket suspended from a twig, and 

 composed entirely of the Usnea that fringes the limbs of 

 old trees, with a very few brown gossamer-fibres to attach 

 it to the twig, and a slight lining of fine grass. An egg 

 in the nest was broken. 



2093. Camaroptera griseiviridis. [Tinkwat.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 321. 



Very common amongst the brush of felled trees in 

 plantations and gardens, through which it is continually 

 threading its way, looking for insects. Its loud sharp-toned 

 notes have already been described ('The Ibis,-" 1908, p. 322). 

 The note is not always repeated just five times, but sometimes 

 six or eight times. 



No. 1495 was shot with bow and arrow in its nest, 

 which contained three naked young birds, just hatched. It 

 was, with great ingenuity, attached to the stem and two 

 large leaves of an " ajom " (^Amomum) in such a manner as 

 to hang from them, one of the leaves being arched over it so 

 as to form a perfect roof. The main material of the nest 

 was very fine fibres ; over the outside was a covering of 



