NILAUS MINOR 453 
resembles the nest of Pachyprora molitor, the White-flanked 
Flycatcher, but is larger and flatter, and is composed of the 
ends of small twigs and weeds strengthened by twine and 
cobwebs and covered externally with lichen. It is lined 
with lichen and leaf-stalks. The clutch consists of two eggs 
only, of a white ground colour covered and blotched all over 
with dark brown.” 
Swynnerton also obtained a nest in Mashonaland on 
October 20, which contained young birds. In this case it was 
about fifteen feet from the ground in the fork of a Brachystegia 
and was so small and so well assimilated to its surroundings 
as to be perfectly invisible except when the old bird was 
sitting on it. It was composed of a curious pale green-grey 
cement or felt intermixed only with a couple of Brachystegia 
leaves and lined scantily with two or three fine grasses. The 
stomach of the male, which was on the nest when discovered, 
contained beetles and a grasshopper. 
Examples of this species in the British Museum from 
the following localities have been examined :— 
Angola—Huxe in Central Benguella (Ansorge); German 
S.W. Africa—Otjimbinque and Swakop River (Andersson) ; 
Bechuanaland—Palapye (Jameson); Cape Colony—Maribogo 
near Mafeking (Woosnam); J’ransvaal—Potchefstroom (Ayres), 
Swaziland (Buckley), Klein Letaba (C. Grant); Natal (See- 
bohm and Cutter); S. Rhodesia—Shashi River (Buckley), 
Zambesi Falls (Bradshaw), Hunyani River (Clarke), Salis- 
bury (Marshall and Swynnerton). 
Nilaus minor. 
Nilaus minor, Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1895, p. 479 Okoto, Central Somaliland ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 714 (1896); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 302 
(1903); Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 266 Oda; Witherby, t. c. 
p. 519 Bera; Gurney, Ibis, 1909, p. 500 Kibwesi ; Bannerman, Tbis, 
1910, p. 303 N, Somaliland, p. 691 Kilimanjaro, 
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