534 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



TcHiTRE\ RUFo-ciNEREA, [Abelebelc] (Plate IX. figs. 

 19 & 21, eggs.) 



Sharpe, Ibi>, 1901, p. G31 ; 1907, p. 456; Bates, Ibis, 

 1909, p. 33. 



This species is of aniore retii'ing disposition tlian T.viridis, 

 and keeps to the forest, but seems otherwise to resemble it 

 in its habits. It lias nearly the same calls and song, but in 

 a more subdued tone, and has also been heard making an 

 unusual chattering noise, something like that of a small 

 S([uirrel. 



The colouring of tiie bill, eyelids, the inside of tlie mouth, 

 and feet in tliis species is the same as in T. viridis and in 

 T. tricolor. The iris in all three is very dark brown or black. 



Anotiier male of T. riifo-cinerea was shot with bow 

 atid arrow, while sitting on the nest in the daytime, and 

 another male was shot just after leaving the nest. A sitting 

 female was caught on the nest at dusk in the evening. The 

 six eggs from these three nests agree in measurements with 

 the larger of the eggs of T. viridis, none varying more than 

 ludf a millimetre from 19 x 14 mm. 



[In addition to those already described (' Ibis,^ 1909, p. 33) 

 the present colleciiun contains eggs more profusely spotted 

 and marked with liijlit red and lilac-grey. These are almost 

 inseparable from eggs of T. rindis. — O.-G.] 



TCHITKEA PIA'MBEICEPS. 



Reich. V. A. ii. p. 510. 



No. 1890. S (testes small). Bitye, R. Ja, Aug. 1906. 



No. 3987. c? (testes rather small). Bitye, R. Ja, Oct. 

 1909. 



These specimens, the first of which M'as recorded by 

 Dr. Sharpe under T. rvfu-cinerea ('Ibis/ J 907, p. 456), 

 seem to be the first found farther north in West Africa 

 than jNlanjanga on the Congo or (doubtfnlly) Laudana. In 

 neither do the middle rectrices a[)pear to be fully grown, 

 though in one they are already over a foot long. The colour 

 of the bill, the ring around the eye, and the feet in No. 3957 

 are of a paler blue than in any of the three other species 



