603 ^rr. G. L. Bates on the 



Males of tliis species have the iris greyish or creamy- 

 \vhite_, ^vhile females have the iris brown or brownish- 

 grey. This fact was first noted by Mr. Jackson ('Ibis/ 

 1906, p. 539). A comparison of the recorded colonr of the 

 iris in my female specimens seems to shew the further 

 interesting fact that in the younger birds it is browner, 

 in the older greyer (or more nearly approaching the colour 

 of the male.) 



In the allied Andropaclus damans both sexes have the iris 

 brown, but it seems to be of a lighter colour in the male. 



Andkopadus latirostris. [Otok,] (Plate XI. figs. 17- 

 19, eggs.) 



Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 386. 



Andropadus efulensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 461 ; Bates, 

 Ibis, 1909, p. 59. 



EuriUas efulensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 636 ; Bates, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 97. 



In this species the inside of the mouth, in both young and 

 adult birds, is yellow, passing far back into orange. 



Several nests, all identified by obtaining the sitting bird, 

 were found in the tangled undergrowth on the borders of the 

 forest. They were loosely built, largely of dry leaves, and had 

 a lining of the fine black hair-like fibres I have so often seen 

 in forest-nests : I do not know their origin. One nest con- 

 tained a single infertile egg, on which the hen bird seemed, 

 from her condition, to have been sitting for a long time. This 

 egg Avas remarkably small, measuring 19"5 x 14 mm. One 

 of two larger eggs, of which the other was broken, measures 

 25x16*5 mm.; the other pair measure 20*5 x 21*5 mm. in 

 length by 15 mm. in width. These eggs do not vary materially 

 in their colour and markings from those already described. 



Andropadls virens. [Otok.] (Plate XI. figs. 6, 7, & 9, 

 eggs.) 



Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 58. 



EuriUas virens Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 635 ; 1907, p. 462. 



EuriUas camerunensis Sharpe, Ibi:^, 1902, p. 91 ; 1901, 

 p. 600 ; 1907, p. 462. 



