from the Camaroon Country. 431 
wing-coverts or inner secondaries, but only a few white 
spots on the outer web of some of the primaries. 
I again affirm that the bird which agrees best with Cassin’s 
plate and shews white spots on the wing-coverts and 
secondaries is the species from Gaboon and Camaroon. I 
suggest that a mistake may have been made in the locality 
of Cassin’s original specimen. 
108. ScopreLus BRUNNEICEPS. 
Scoptelus brunneiceps Sharpe ; id. Ibis, 1904, p. 610, pl. xi. 
No. 1450. gad. River Ja, Feb. 22,1906. Testes rather 
small, 
No. 2045. gad. Bitye, River Ja, Nov. 5, 1906. 
109. MELITTOPHAGUS AUSTRALIS. 
Melittophagus australis Reichenow; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 
p- 611. 
No. 1879. 9 ad. River Ja, Jan. 31, 1906. ~ Eggs 
forming. 
No. 1442, Gad. River Ja, Feb. 20, 1906. ‘Testes 
rather large. 
Nos. 1769, 1770. g 2 ad. River Ja, June 16, 1906. 
No. 1896. gad. River Ja, Aug. 8, 1906. 
No. 1908. 2 ad. 5 Aug. 11], 1906. 
[This bird is seen now and then sitting on an exposed 
twig, from which it makes sallies after insects, returning to 
the same perch. I have generally observed it thus near mid- 
day, when most other birds are hidden in the cool shade. 
Sometimes there are two of these Bee-eaters, on perches not 
far apart. Those seen have generally been silent, but one 
observed near Efulen in July uttered a series of sharp 
“cheeps”’ after each circuit-flight, beginning to “ cheep” 
while still on the wing, and keeping it up for a minute or so 
on its perch, working its tail up and down as it did so. 
Specimens in January, February, and May were breeding. 
In April, near the Ja, a bird of this species was seen to fly 
out of a hole in a bank near the path. The hole ran into the 
bank, near the surface above, for two or three feet, in loose, 
