from the Camaroon Country. 455 
No. 1102. ? imm. Zima Country, Oct. 10,1905. Eggs 
forming. 
No. 1371. ¢ ad. River Ja, Jan. 27, 1906. Testes 
large. 
No. 1923. Gad. 25 miles from Kribi, Sept. 5, 1906. 
Nos. 1929, 1970. ? ad. 25 miles from Kribi, Sept. 11, 
24, 1906. 
As a rule, 7. tricolor can be distinguished from T. rufo- 
cinerea by its grey tail, which resembles the back. 7. rufo- 
cinerea has a red tail, and at first sight the two species look 
distinct enough. 
I have before me, however, grey-tailed birds (i. e., 7. tri- 
color) which have a great deal of grey overspreading the 
throat and breast, though the under tail-coverts are bright 
chestnut. The full-plumaged male has a blackish throat 
and the rest of the under surface bright chestnut from the 
lower throat downwards. In three females the breast and 
abdomen are cinnamon or light chestnut, while the grey 
colour occupies the throat, and in two of them spreads over 
the chest and flanks. A male is almost entirely blue-grey 
beneath, save for the chestnut under tail-coverts. 
When the grey colour is seen on the under surface the 
bird would be indistinguishable from 7. rufo-cinerea but for 
the red back and tail of the latter. I confess that I cannot 
follow all the plumages of 7’ tricolor. 
[This bird is less often seen than 7. viridis, and keeps 
more to the forest, where it is often a member of the “ éjak.” 
The male of this species sits on the eggs. No. 1871, a 
male with very large breeding-organs, was shot on the nest. 
The contents and bits of the shell of one egg (possibly two) 
were stuck to the feathers when it was brought tome. The 
nest was just like that of 7. viridis, except that it had a 
deep base of moss, and that fine rootlets were used, as well as 
stem-fibres, in its construction. 
Birds of this species were found breeding in nearly every 
month in which it was collected; indeed, the same may be 
said of the other two species of Tchitrea.—G. L. B.] 
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