Birds of Southern Cameroon. 6,21 



the females, which have remarkably short tails^ though 

 certainly fully grown. 



A sitting female (No. 43i6) was caught in the nest, 

 which was also brought, with two eggs. This nest differed 

 from those of C. (jriseoviridis only in that it was composed 

 entirely of soft white down (pappus) ; there were some 

 tough brown cobwebs running through and giving firmness 

 to the soft down. The nest was attached to six leaves, three 

 iinderneath forming a support, and three above forming a 

 roof. 



The eggs (Nos. 531 & 535) measure 17-5 x 12-5 and 17 x 

 12"5 mm. 



[They are similar to those of C. griseoviridis described 

 above, but with the markings rather larger and more distinct, 

 much as in the clutch including Nos. 526, 527. — W. li. 

 O.-G.] 



CaMAROPTERA SUPERCILIARIS. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 323. 



Cainuroptera Jlavif/u/aris lieich. V. A. iii. p. 621. 



No. 3952. ? immature. Bitye. 



No. 3304. Sex? Immature. Assobam. 



No. 3315. J immature. Assobam. 



]\lany adult specimens. 



These immature specimens have the throat and chest 

 yellow with varying amounts of white intermixed, and it 

 may be seen that the white feathers are in moult, many 

 being still partly in the sheaths. The bird with yellow 

 throat and chest described by Keichenow.as C. flavigaluris 

 must be the young of C. superciliaris. 



A marked character of this species does not seem to have 

 been noticed, perhaps because it is sup|)osed to be due to 

 injury of tlie specimens. There is a bare patch at each 

 side of the throat, the skm of which is deep blue. 



Sylviella denti. (Plate XII. fig. 17, egg.) (Text- 

 fig. 19, D. p. 61 k) 



Sijlviella denti Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 25; Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. xix. p. 361. 



