52G Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



Avith very fiue dots aud miuute spots of maroon-red and lilac- 

 grey, most numerous towards the larger end. In two 

 specimens {o9i and 395) the larger end is washed with dull 

 pink formiijg an indistinct cap. — O.-G.] 



Bias musicus. [Knlityang.] (Plate IX. fig. 9, egg.) 



Ibis, 1904, p. G2C); 1905, p. 94.; 1907,' p. 450. 



Tlie Knlityang makes its nest in the smaller trees of 

 old cleared ground about villnges. It is a shallow cup 

 composed of fine dry leaf-petioles and stems, without aiiy 

 soft lining; and is bound about with a netting of cobwebs, 

 like the nests of other Flycatchers. The inside diameters, 

 measured in different directions at the top, vary from 50 to 

 60 mm. Along with one nest Avere brought a pair of old 

 birds, the female with a brood-spot, the male with large 

 testes and in worn plumage. The boy who brought them said 

 that he first shot one of the birds on the nest with his bow ; 

 then the other came and sat on the same nest, when he shot 

 it also. There were two eggs, but only one (No. 490) was 

 saved. It measures 21 X 16 mm. 



[The egg is of a rather wide oval form, slightly pointed 

 towards the smaller end and devoid of gloss. The ground 

 is pale bluish-green, with a rather wide dense zone round 

 the larger end formed of small spots and blotches of umber- 

 brown and lilac-grey, and a few small scattered markings 

 over the rest of the shell. — O.-G.] 



Smithornis camerunensis. [Mbamezok.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 451 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 31. 



Grant, Traris. Zool. Soc. xlx. p. 400. 



In reporting an additional nest and eggs, brought with a 

 sitting female bird (No. 3090), it is only necessary to note 

 that the materials of the nest Avere long stringy fibres, 

 probably of dried bark of the weed Triuitifetta or of dried 

 plantain leaf-stalks — such things as are found in h'lkoiok and 

 not in the forest; that this nest contained three eggs, Avhile 

 previous ones had only two ; and that these eggs were a 

 little sliorter than those obtained before, all three measui'- 

 ing 22 X 15"5 ram. 



