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motionless on a bare twig, preferably on the tip of an upright 
dead branch, like the knob on the top of a flagstaff, flying 
out occasionally after a passing insect and returning again. 
It builds in abandoned nests of the Weavers, Heterhyphantes 
nigricollis and Hyphantornis cucullatus. I have been shown 
several nests in such situations with a slight liming of fine 
plant-fibres inside the larger structure. Specimen No. 1559 
(a sitting female) and the two little nestlings, No. 1555, 
were shot or taken in such nests; and I have seen a pair of 
the little Flycatchers entering an old Weaver’s nest with 
building-material. The eggs have been found, and are of 
a plain terra-cotta colour, rather long, measuring 20 or 
21 mm.x13mm.; only two are laid. The bird has been 
found breeding in December, in February, in March, and in 
June. : 
This species had never been obtained at Efulen till 
1905.—G. L. B.] 
163. CHLOROPETA BATESI. 
Chloropeta batest Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 468. 
No. 1395. Gad. River Ja, Feb. 7, 1906. 
No. 1439. ¢ ad. ue Feb. 18, 1906. 
No. 1472. ¢ ad. i Feb. 27, 1906. 
No. 1539. ¢ ad. A: March 12, 1906. 
Nos. 1760, 1818. @ ad. River Ja, June, 13, 30, 1906. 
Testes large. 
These specimens agree with the types described by me 
(ssc): 
164. DIaAPHOROPHYIA CASTANEA, 
Diaphorophyia castanea (Fraser); Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 
p. 625; 1905, p. 468. 
No. 733.~- ¢ ad. Efulen, June 6, 1905. 
No. 748. 9 ad. ul ene 8, 190a- 
No. 807. ¢ juv. 5 June 26, 1905. 
Noesls: saad: . June 28, 1905. 
No. 866. 9? ad. et uly 10,1905; 
No. 890. ¢ ad. no uly 2s 8905, 
No. 988. G@imm. _,; July 28, 1905. 
