trom the Camaroon Country. 453 
Nos. 2056. 9 ad.; 2080, 2102. g ad. et juv.. Bitye, 
River Ja, Nov. 5-29, 1906. 
The young bird is spotted and banded with whitish tips to 
the feathers. It is slightly older than that described by me 
er). 
174, ERyYTHROCERCUS MACCALLI. 
Erythrocercus maccalli (Cass.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 628. 
No. 802. ?9. Efulen, June 24, 1905. 
Nos. 1510. Juv.; 1511. g@ ad. River Ja, March 7, 1906. 
No. 1520. 9 ad. River Ja, March 8, 1906. 
No. 1626. 2? ad. io March 29, 1906. 
No. 1808. ¢ ad. < June 26,1906. Testes small. 
The female has not the chestnut crown of the male, but 
the fore-part of the head is dingy brown. 
[This smallest of the Flycatchers has not the manner 
of catching insects which is characteristic of the family. 
Instead of sitting on the watch, solitary and silent, the little 
Erythrocercus goes in small companies of three or four or 
half a dozen, flitting busily fram twig to twig of the great 
trees of the forest in search of imsects, making all the while 
a lively twittering.—G. L. B.] 
175, TROCHOCERCUS NITENS. 
Trochocercus nitens Cass. ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 629. 
No. 789. 2 juv. Efulen, June 16, 1905. 
Nos. 837, 898. dg ad.etjuv. LEfulen, July 3, 14, 1905. 
No. 1007, 1012. ¢.9 juv. Efulen, Aug. 5, 7, 1905. 
No. 1062. ¢g juv. Efulen, Aug. 17, 1905. 
No. 1083. ¢ juv. Zima Country, Oct. 8, 1905. 
No. 1862. g ad. River Ja, Jan. 25, 1906. 
No. 1526. 3 ad. a March 9, 1906. 
No. 1487. ? ad. 5 March 3, 1906. 
No. 1526. ¢ ad. re March 9, 1906. 
No. 1863. ¢ ad. # July 26, 1906. 
It should be noted that in the birds from the River Ja 
the female differs from the male in having no black on the 
throat, this part being grey, only a little lighter than the 
rest of the under surface. Dr. Reichenow has described the 
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