530 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
Tliis is black above, bat, instead of the small round yellow 
spots or dots on the crown of the adult female, there are 
very small whitish shaft-streaks to the black feathers of the 
crown. The throat is white with narrow black bars. 
CoLIUS NIGRICOLLIS. 
Reich. V. A. ii. p. 203. 
Colius nigriscapalis Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 434 ; Bates, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 21. 
Many nests, containing nestlings or eggs, have now been 
found. These have been confined, so far, to the months 
of March and April and from August to November. In 
several cases the sitting bird killed or caught on the nest 
proved to be a male. 
The nestling has the inside of the mouth slaty-black and 
the tongue yellow, so that when the mouth is open the 
tongue is very conspicuous. The number of cubital remiges 
in several nestlings was at least nine (it was uncertain 
whether another one was a quill or a covert). The number 
in Colius affinis was found by Mr. Pycraft (‘ Ibis,’ 1907, 
p. 233) to be eight. 
Eurystomus neglectus. [Kamang.] 
Eurystomus gularis neglectus Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 
1908, p. 28. 
Eurystomus gularis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 606. 
Nos. 2240, 2946. Both ? . Bitye, R. Ja. 
Nos. 3262, ? , & 3226, sex ? Assobam, Bumba R. 
Neumann describes several well-marked characters in 
which this species differs from typical E. gularis , and these 
are all to be seen in my birds except as regards the blue 
colour on the basal part of the middle tail-feathers; this 
is well-marked in only one of them, No. 3226, which may 
have been a male; in the others those feathers shew only a 
bluish tinge when held in a certain position. 
This is a forest species, while E . afer is a bird of open 
country; the latter has been found at Bitye (‘ Ibis/ 1907, 
p. 428) in a district where there is much cultivated or old 
