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was not very small, but the entrance was only the size of 

 the finger (20 mm. in diameter). The nestlings (Nos. 4335 

 and 4336) were brought in another such nest. These had 

 the inside of the mouth and tongue uniform orange, without 

 mai^kings. 



In the nest first mentioned there were two eggs, but one 

 was broken. The other (No. 476) measures 15 x 11 mm. 



[It is of a rather short and somewhat pointed oval shape 

 and devoid of gloss. The ground is pale pink mottled all 

 over with darker greyish-pink ; scattered all over the 

 surface of the shell are a number of small spots and irregular 

 marks of deep brown, with others smeared at the edges of 

 paler yellowish-brown. — W. R. O.-G.] 



CiNNYKis OBSCURUS. (Plate XI. figs. 20, 21, & 27, eggs.) 



Cyanomitra obscura Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 331 ; Bates, 

 Ibis, 1909, p. 61. 



Five more nests are now recorded, in which sitting birds 

 of this species were caught or shot. These nests agree in 

 every particular M-ith the description already given ; but 

 one point may be added, by which nests of this and other 

 Suubirds may always be distinguished from those of 

 S/nithornis which they much resemble. In the latter long 

 fibres or streamers hang down from the bottom of the nest ; 

 ill Suubirds' nests there are also long hanging streamers, 

 but they come from about the mouth or entrance of the 

 nest, like a beard, and not from the bottom. 



The eggs in these nests always numbered two. All eggs 

 measured have a width of 12 or 12"5 mm., but vary in 

 length from 16 to 18 mm. 



[They are of an ordinary oval shape, somewhat pointed 

 towards the smaller end, and devoid of gloss. The eggs 

 exhibit three very distinct types. In the first the ground 

 is pale greenish -stone- colour mottled Avith yellowish- 

 brown, and with somewhat rounded spots and blotches of 

 dark brown Avith the edges blending into the ground-colour. 

 In the second, the ground is gi'eyish-white clouded with 

 pale lilac-grey and with small spots and short dashes of 



