520 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
Fraseria ocreata. (Plate IX. fig. 12, egg.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 328 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 29. 
A bird of the forest, this species has been seen in every 
locality where I have been in S. Cameroon, but was especially 
abundant near my camp at Assobam. Sometimes there were 
small parties of four or five, chasing one another with a 
buzzing or scolding noise. I occasionally heard some 
pleasing song-notes from one at Assobam, and two pairs 
were found breeding there. One pair seemed to be beginning 
to build in a knot-hole near the top of a small dead tree. 
One sitting female was brought with a nest set between 
two stout twigs of a branch. This nest was composed of a 
large mass of fine fibres, with a good-sized cup-shaped 
cavity. The inside fibres appeared to be rootlets, and were 
very rough; the feathers of the bird’s breast were extremely 
worn, so as to be mere stumps, and had lost the white ends, 
making the bird’s breast appear dark grey. A single nest¬ 
ling in this nest had the upper parts of its plumage covered 
with small light brown spots or speckles, thickest on the 
head, and the inside of the mouth orange. 
Another sitting bird, shot with a little arrow in the head, 
was brought in at Bitye, along with a nest and two eggs. 
The nest was made of dry leaf-skeletons and stems, with no 
soft lining. It was said to have been taken from a small 
shallow knot-hole in a tree. The bird sat in this hole with 
only its head visible. One egg was broken; the other 
measured 21 X 17 mm. 
[One egg is of a wide oval shape and distinctly glossy. 
The ground-colour is light olive-green, longitudinally marked 
with smeared blotches and spots of bright umber-brown 
and dark grey, which conceal the greater part of the ground- 
colour.—O.-G.] 
Muscicapa orisola. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 623; 1907, p. 446. 
Dates of recent specimens, and state of plumage :— 
No. 3546, March 30. Plumage new-looking. 
No. 3934, September 27. ,, worn. 
No. 3986, October 23. „ „ 
