Birds of Sonlhern Cameroon. C05 



about villages. I have recorded aud saved the eggs of those 

 nests only with which the sitting bird was brought. The 

 bird was usually caught on the nest by boys iu the evening ; 

 with one nest the boy brought both birds alive (a breeding 

 male and a female with brood-spot), and stated that when he 

 captured the latter on the nest, after dark, her mate can e 

 to defend her and was taken by hand. 



Young birds have the swollen margins of the gape white 

 and the inside of the mouth deep red. Adult birds have 

 much orange-colour on the inside of the mouth. 



Twenty-two eggs have been measured. The largest were 

 two from different nests, each 24x17 mm.; the shortest 

 were Nos. 515 and 515 a, from one nest, 20 x lG-5 mm. and 

 20x16 mm., but some eggs that were not so short were 

 narrower than these, the narrowestmeasuring 2r5 x 1 i'5mm. 



[The recent collections include at least three types of eggs, 

 which are very distinct from the ordinary fine-spotted form 

 already described (' Ibis,' 1909, p. 60). 



Nos. 501, 502. One pair has the markings larger and of 

 an unusually brilliant maroon, very densely crowded towards 

 the larger end. 



Nos. 229, 230. In a second type the ground is pale 

 pinkish-white, sparingly marked with small separate spots, 

 blotches, and short irregular lines of light red and chocolate, 

 with underlying rounded spots of pale lilac-grey. 



Nos. 515, 515 a. In yet a third type the eggs are shorter 

 and the ground-colour is pink and with markings much as 

 in tiie last (second) type, but the surface-markings are more 

 numerous and nearly all light red. — W. R. O.-G.] 



ZOSTEROPS STENOCIIICOTA. 



Fieich. V. A. iii. p. 432. 



Zosterops seneyalensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 337. 



No. 246. ? . Efulen, 19 Nov., 1903. Length of wing 

 50 mm. 



No. 4011. ?. Bitye, 12 Nov., 1909. Wing 52 mm. 



No. 4025. S ' Bitye, 17 Nov., 1909. Wing 54 mm. 



A specimen skinned by a native, Bitye, Nov. 1909. 

 ^Vin": 53 mm. 



