(100 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



twisted well-defined lines, scrolls, blotches, and spots o£ 

 rich vandyke-brown and faint lilac-grey. In one egg with 

 a Avhite ground the markings are all concentrated in a 

 Avreath of twisted lines round the larger end. — W. R. O.-G.] 



Phyllostrophus flavigula. [Nkes.] (Plate XL 



H- 10, egg.) 



Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 57. 



Ble da flavigula Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 458. 



I have now learnt to distinguish the notes of this Nkes 

 from those of P. simplex. 



A few nests of this species have been brought, with the 

 sitting bird caught or killed. Some of these nests were 

 taken from higher situations than those of P. simplex, 

 in small trees on cleared ground around villages. No 

 tendrils were used in their construction. Other nests 

 agree very well Avith the one already described (/. c). The 

 clutch consists of two eggs. 



Nestlings have the inside of the mouth orange, and the 

 swollen inargin of the gape yellowish-white. 



I have had unusual bad luck with the eggs of this species, 

 and only two (Nos. 3 18 and 349) are perfect : both measure 

 24 X 16'5 mm. 



[They are much more heavily marked than the broken 

 one already described (' Ibis,^ 1909, p. 57). The ground- 

 colour is pale buff, almost obscured by dense blotches 

 and markings of rich vandyke-brown and paler brown. — 

 W. R. O.-G.] 



Phyllostrophus ohientalis. 



Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 58. 



Nos. 3144 ^ , 3178 S , 3220 ? , and 3300 ? . Assobam, 

 Dec. 1908. 



These birds are not P. scandens, and I think, by com- 

 paring them with the original description by Hartlaub and 

 the figure (Zool. Jahrb. 1887, pi. xi.), that they belong 

 to the species described from Emin^s collection on the 

 Upper Welle River as P. orientalis. The bird has been 

 both seen and heard bv me, and is one of those whose 



