Birds of Southeim Cameroon. Gil 



my small l)irds seem to be) : (1) the smaller size ; (2) tlie 

 blue tips to the red breast-feathers ; (3) white under-wing 

 coverts. Females I could distinguish from females of 

 C. chloropyghis by their smaller size only, and especially 

 by their much shorter bills. 



Nos. 4166 and 4194 were caught in their nests. These 

 nests resembled those of C. chloropygius in construction, but 

 were made of different materials, being composed of fine black 

 rootlets and moss, stuck over with cobwebs, which hold 

 many decorations of bits of whitish lichen, bark, dry leaves, 

 and otlier scraps of dry vegetable matter. One nest 

 contained one naked nestling, with the inside of the mouth 

 orange, the tongue unmarked, and the swollen margin of 

 gape whitish. The other nest, said to have been found 

 hanging from two fern-fronds growing on the stem of a 

 palm-tree (among the decorations on this nest were bits of 

 dry male flowers of the palm), contained two eggs (Nos. 486, 

 487) measuring 15'5 x 10 and 14-5 x 10 mm. 



[These eggs are of a rather long oval form and devoid of 

 gloss. The ground is white with a greenish tinge spotted 

 with dark ash-brown and blotched with dark lilac-grey, the 

 markings being mostly arranged in an irregular ring round 

 the larger end. — W. R. O.-G.] 



AnABATHMIS REICHENBACHI. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 340 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 63. 



Nos. 3390, 3466, 3983. All S ad. Bitye. 



Nos. 3392, 3393, 34i7, 3465, 3469,3471,3490. All ? ad. 

 Bitye. 



Nos. 3156, 3480. ? young. Bitye. 



The adult females are smaller than the males, but exactly 

 like them in every part of the plumage, even to the yellow 

 pectoral tufts. The young i)irds represent two stages of 

 immature plumage. No. 3480 is full-grown, with the bill 

 as long as that of the adult; it is olive-green above, and 

 the feathers of the crown have narrow metallic-blue edges ; 

 beneath it is yellow, but some new feathers appearing ou 

 the throat arc metallic-blue, and some on the breast arc 



