Birds uf Southern Cameroun. GOl 



cries cannot be mistaken. It was met with at several 

 places near the Kiver J a, and at my camp at Assobani 

 near the River Bumba, always among the Raphia palms 

 or other vegetation on the banks of streams. The fact 

 that it was first met with on the eastern margin, and tlien 

 at the extreme western edge of the Congo river-basin, 

 makes it probable that the bird's range follows all the 

 streams of that system. 



A female (No. 3220), with a very marked brood-spot, 

 was shot on the nest, which was found by my boys in a 

 tree over a small tributary of the Bumba. This nest was 

 hung, rather than set, between the forks of a twig, attached 

 by means of woolly-looking cobweb and black hair-like 

 fibres, forming a net around the outside, which was of dry 

 leaves and palm-leaf strips. The two eggs were received 

 broken, and could not be measured ; but they looked small 

 for the size of the bird. 



[They appear to have been of a slightly pointed oval 

 shape, and somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is dull 

 creamy-white or pale stone-colour, with sufi'used clouded 

 mai'kings of greyish, especially towards the larger end, and 

 with overlying small spots and short twisted markings and 

 lines of umber-brown, most of the markings being more or 

 less fused and indistinct. — W. R. O.-G.] 



Andropadus indicator. [Mali.] 



Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 384. 



Bleda batesi Sharpe, Ibis, 190 J, p. 634 ; 1907, p. 461. 



Bleda indicator Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 460. 



Additional specimens clearly shew that, as Mr. Ogilvic- 

 Grant has observed, the birds with the outer tail-feathers pure 

 white, that were named B. batesi, represent the immature 

 plumage of B. indicator. Two obviously immature birds 

 were shot, in which the white rectrices have no dark tips. 

 These two birds have another interesting peculiarity in that 

 their rectrices are longer and more pointed than those of 

 adults — a characteristic I have observed in the immature of 

 many kinds of birds (see ' Ibis,' 1911, p. 502 & fig. 13;. 



