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o.iii<T^ht in a hole in a tree. The ])lnmage diflers from tliat 

 of adults in that tlie li^lit spots of the under parts are white. 

 Both the breeding birds mentioned above Avere killed in 

 January, and the young one in February. These are the 

 driest months of the year. 



Dendromus ntvosus. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. G19; 1907, p. 443. 



Dendromus efu/ensis Chubb, Bull. B.O. C. xxi, p. 92; 

 Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 20. 



Among a considerable number of these birds some have 

 the backs as golden in tint as specimens from the Gold 

 Coast. 



Three more nests, or rather breeding-holes, o£ this species 

 have now been brought to me, in every case accompanied by 

 the bird that had been caught in the hole ; only one of 

 these birds was a female, two were males. These holes 

 were all cavities in the globular pendant nests of termites, 

 which are huge balls, earthy and heavy, of the size and 

 shape of a football, constructed around the slender stems 

 of certain shrubs and vines. The situation of these breed- 

 ing-holes thus resembled that of the hole of the same species 

 formerly described (' Ibis,' 1909, p. 20) ; but that was in a 

 light and papery ants^ (not termites') nest. The structure 

 in which the hole of Ayapornis jmlJaria was found (see notes 

 on that bird, p. 496) was yet another kind of ants' nest. 



In each of the three more recent holes of this Wood- 

 ])ecker were two eggs, pure wliite, with thin glossy shells, 

 measuring— (1) 25x16 and 225x16 mm.; (2) 21x16-5 

 and 21 x 17-5 mm. ; (3) 23 x 16 and 22 x 16-5 mm. 



The months in which these eggs were found were April, 

 June, and December; those mentioned in the former paper 

 were found in January. These months belong to the dry 

 season, and to the less rainy of the two rainy seasons. 



Dendromus permistus. 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 619 ; 1907, p. 443. 

 No. 4071, a young bird with the feathers not quite grown, 

 differs markedly from adults in the plumage of the head. 



