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birds liave black tips to the feathers of the supercilium. ]\Iy 

 specimen of C. somereni is more grey on the back, but is 

 evidently an older bird. Tlie wing also is longer, but in 

 most, if not all, of the Cossyp/ue the male has a longer wing 

 than the female, and the fact of the birds coming from the 

 same district (the t^'pe of C. somereni was obtained in this 

 locality) seems to point to their being identical. 



95. Pratincola rubetra. Very common. I have no definite 

 records of its arrival and departure, the earliest date of a 

 specimen being November 25 and latest March 24. 



96. Pratincola axillaris. Common. 



97. Turdus pelios. Common in all the native gardens. 

 This bird has a song very similar to that of Turdus musicus. 

 It bnilds very frequently on the top of a growing bunch of 

 bananas of a kind the fruit of which turns upwards, and so 

 forms an ideal spot for the nest ; this is built in April or 

 May, and is formed of coarse grass mixed with mud outside 

 and lined with I'ootlets. The eggs, usually three in number, 

 are bluish green blotched all over with reddish brown. 



98. MelaBnornis pammelsena. Fairly common. I have not 

 found the nest, but have shot birds in breeding condition in 

 the middle of February and young not long from the nest 

 in April. 



99. Mnscicapa l)revicauda. 



Muscicapa hrevicuudu O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xix. 1907, 

 p. 107. 



On 2 June, 1912, I noticed a Weaver's nest hanging from 

 a single creeper, and, wishing to get the bird, I waited 

 about, but did not see any Weavers in the neighbourhood. 

 There was, however, a pair of M. brevicauda in a very 

 excited mood evidently nesting near by, and while watching 

 I saw one of them go into the Weaver's nest. On exami- 

 nation I found that the Flycatchers had built a nest inside 

 that of the Weaver. The Flycatchers' nest was composed 

 of coarse grass and lined with fine grass. It seemed extra- 

 ordinary that a Flycatcher should select such a site as the 



