530 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



and was deep, and built high on tlie more exposed or open 

 side. 



The extremely small nestlings had the mouths inside and 

 the tongues bright orange, unmarked, and the margin of 

 the gape yellowish white. 



Elminia longicauda. (Plate IX. iig. 2f), e^^.) 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904., p. G;31 ; 1907, p. 436 ; liates, 1905, 

 p. 470. 



The habits o£ this bird were deseribed in 'The Ibis* (1905, 

 p. 96), with its nest (1905, p. 457) and its eggs (1909, p. 32). 

 One of those eggs. No. 41, is figured here. Other nests and 

 eggs have been found, but the eggs were broken. A nest, 

 brought in with the male bird, No. 3023, contained a 

 smgle very young nestling. The inference from the fact 

 that the first bleeding birds and nests were found in June, 

 namely, that this species has a distinct breeding-season, has 

 proved partially correct, as the eggs and young found since 

 have been in the montlis of March, April, and August, that 

 is, all within a single lialf-year. 



As this is a bird of the cleared land, averse to the forest, 

 it is naturally most abundant ahout the Ja and Bitye ; it 

 was rare at Efulen, and not seen at all at Assobam, where 

 the extent of the cleared land is small. 



TllOCIIOCERCUS NIGRO-MITRATUS. 



Reich. V. A. ii. p. 500. 



Trochocercus nitens (nee Cass.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 629 ; 

 1907, p. 453. 



No. 84. ? . Bitye, B. Ja, 1903. 



Nos. 163, 408, 837, 1012. All S- Efulen. 



Nos. 789, 1007. Both ? . Efulen. 



No. 1083. ? . Ziraa Country. 



Nos. 2561 &2622, both S, and 2623, ? . Between Kribi 

 and Efulen. 



No. 4266. ? ad. Bitye, July 1910. 



Nos. 4454 & 4494. S ad. Bitve, Nov. 1910. 



