Birds of Southern Cameroon. G03 



An adult male specimen exhibits a peculiarity in plumage 

 whicli I take to be a remarkable individual variation, as I 

 have never seen another like it. The feathers of the back 

 are very finely cross-barred with a lighter shade of colour. 

 Otherwise it is a perfectly typical example of Andropadus 

 virens. 



Nests of this Otok^ which have been shown to me along 

 with the sitting birds caught on them, were always composed 

 largely of dry leaves, so that they fell to pieces readily when 

 handled. They were found in the thickest places in hikoiok, 

 always near the ground. One had in it three nestlings, and 

 the old bird (the male) had been shot with bow and arrow 

 while feeding its young. These nestlings, as well as other 

 young birds seen, had the tongue and inside of the mouth 

 bright orange ; but in this species much of this colour is to 

 be seen also in the mouths of adults. 



The number of eggs in six clutches, brought in the nest 

 along with the sitting birds, was always two. They vary from 

 20 to 2.2 mm. in length, and from 14'5 to 15'5 mm. in width. 

 The description already given of the first two eggs found 

 (' Ibis,' 1909, p. 59) applies to all these eggs. 



IxOxXOTUs GUTTATUs. [Ntvctyal.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 638 ; 1907, p. 403 ; Bates, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 97. 



It has ah'eady been noted that the Ntyctyal feeds in small 

 flocks. A specimen shot recently, with a marked brood-spot 

 and otlier indications of sitting, was one of such a flock. 

 The birds do not seem to wander far, but frequent one place, 

 at least, where there are trees with the fruit on which they 

 feed. 



There is a marked difference in the colour of the iris in 

 the two sexes ; in the male it is brown, in the female 

 greyish-white. Note that in this species it is the female, in 

 Andropadus indicator the male, that has a white iris. 



Two nests have been found, both in small trees : one 

 contained a single nestling ; the other two eggs, which 

 were broken by the shot that killed the bird. The nests 



