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above, whitish horu-coloured beneath, the feet brown. The 

 immature bird has pale yellowish-brown tips to the wing- 

 coverts. 



These birds, obtained at widely different places in 

 Southern Cameroon, agree so perfectly with the description 

 of Du Chaillus bird collected more than fifty years ago that 

 the suggestion of Dr. Sharpe that they were the same seems 

 to me to be little short of certainty. I have been led to place 

 the bird in Alseo7iax not ouly by its appearance, but by 

 what I have been told by ray hnnter of the habits of one 

 that was shot ; the light-tipped wing-coverts go to strengthen 

 this opinion. 



Parisoma plumbeum. 



Reich. V. A. iii. p. 521. 



No. S985. S breeding. Bitye, Oct. 1909. 



No. 4115. ? nearly ready to lay. Bitye, Feb. 1910. 



Iris brown; bill black, grey beneath ; feet grey. 



The order of the birds in Reichenow's ' Vogcl Afrikas ' is 

 only here departed from because of the manifest resem- 

 blance of Farhoina to the I'lycatchers, rather than to the 

 Tits. 



Pariso.ma iiolospodium. 

 Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxv. p. 27. 



Nos. 3138, ?, Nov.; 3G90, 369G, S, May; 4013, ^, 

 Nov. ; 4221, (^ , June. All collected at Bitye. 



PEDiLOKiiYXcnus C051ITATUS. [Kula] (Plate IX. figs. 13 

 & 17, eggs.) 



PedilorJifjncJius cumerunensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. G24 ; 

 1907, p. 447; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 30. 



Alseonax contitatm Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 392. 



The fact that nestlings and immature birds of this species 

 have no light spots on the wing coverts or other parts 

 of the plumage makes one suspect that its real affinities, 

 in spite of appearances, are rather with Trochocercus and 

 other genera than with Aheonax ; hence I kee[) it in the 

 separate genus made for it by Reiehenow. The plumage of 



