504 
Mr. G. L. Bates on ihe 
ready to lay were shot in the neighbourhood of dead trees 
containing the holes of Barbets (Gymnobucco) , and seemed 
to be led to the spot by the instinct which makes them seek 
such a place to deposit their eggs. One had in the oviduct 
a crushed egg with complete shell ; the bits of egg-shell 
were pure white, without gloss, and w r ere not very thin. 
Melignomon zenkeri. 
lleichenow, Y. A. ii. p. 113; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 17. 
No. 3705. £. Bitye, R. Ja, June 1, 1909. 
No. 4073. ? breeding. Esamesa, It. Ja, Jan. 1910. 
Both had the iris brown; bill dark horny, yellowish at the 
base beneath and at the gape ; feet dull yellow. Nostrils 
with a long-elliptical raised rim. 
Pkodotiscus insignis. 
Reichenow, V. A. ii. p. 115. 
Hetcerodes insignis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Sc. Philad. 1856, 
p. 157; 1859, p. 142, figure. 
Indicator emini Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 43. 
No. 4093. ? ad. Bitye, It. Ja, Peb. 11, 1910. Iris 
dark brown; bill black; feet slate-coloured. 
No. 4076. $ yg. Esamesa, B. Ja, Jan. 29, 1910. Iris 
brown; bill above dark at base, whitish at tip, beneath 
yellowish; feet grey. 
My specimens are exactly like the type of Shelley's 
Indicator emini , which, as pointed out in a MS. note with 
that specimen, written by Neumann, differs in some slight 
particulars from Cassin's description of specimens from the 
Gaboon region. If there are two subspecies or geographical 
races, my specimens belong to that found by Emin on the 
eastern border of the Congo Basin, and not to that found 
near Gaboon. 
The young bird (No. 4076) is nearly like the adult, but 
has a darker and less yellowish plumage. 
The skins of these birds were not especially tough, like 
the skins of Indicator. The food of the young one had 
been small Orthoptera, probably given it by a foster-parent. 
