524 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
young birds has already been noticed Ibis/ 1909, P* 31) 
and is further illustrated by two later examples (No. 3775, a 
young bird with plumage not quite grown, and No. 4410, 
which is still younger). Both of these had the inside of the 
mouth and the tongue orange without markings and the 
margin of the gape whitish. No. 4410 was one of two nest¬ 
lings brought, in the nest, with the old male bird, No. 4409. 
Five additional nests with eggs have been secured since 
those previously reported. All these were merely a slight 
additional lining placed inside old nests of Weaver-Finches, 
generally those of Ploceus nigricollis, but in one case that 
of P. cucullatus. 
Five additional eggs vary in length from 19 to 21 mm., 
and in width from 13 to 13*5 mm. 
[These examples closely resemble those already described, 
but in two specimens (Nos. 200, 201) the dense markings 
are reddish brown in tint.—O.-G.] 
Pedilorhynchus brevirostris. 
Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxv. p. 28. 
The type-specimen, the only one secured, was shot at 
Assobam ; P. comitatus was not seen there. 
Chloropeta batesi. (Plate IX. fig. 15, egg, and text-fig. 14.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1905, p. 468 ; 1907, p. 448. 
A comparison of the specimens in the British Museum 
seems to shew that this species is really distinct, though all 
the forms of the genus are closely allied. C. batesi most 
nearly resembles C. massaica, but differs in having the 
darker colour of the crown not so well defined from the 
colour of the back, and in having the yellow loral spot 
rather larger and more distinct. My later specimens agree 
with those sent previously. Moreover, these later specimens, 
in which the colour of the feet was noted, all had them 
grey, w T hile specimens of C. massaica are marked “legs 
black.” In my specimens the irides were brown ; the bill 
above was dark horn-coloured, beneath yellowish-white with 
blue veins. 
In this bird the number of the rectrices is ten. This 
