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Birds of Southern Cameroon . 
remarkable fact was ascertained by examining many freshly 
killed specimens, which can be more easily handled than 
dried ones. Moreover, two nestlings were examined, in 
which the tail-feathers shewed as a row o£ points across the 
pygostyle, and in each case there were just ten such points. 
Text-fig. 14. 
Tongue-spots of Chloropeta batesi . 
The nestlings have the inside of the mouth and the tongue 
orange, and the tongue has a pair of black spots at the base 
—a character found in no other nestling Flycatcher (see 
text-figure 14). Adult birds retain much of the orange- 
colour inside the mouth, but there are no tongue-spots. 
Four nests have been found and brought to me, in every 
case with the sitting bird. Three of these, one being a male, 
were caught on the nest after dark ; the fourth, also a male, 
was shot on the nest with a bow and arrow, at dusk. 
These nests were found in bikotok or cultivated ground; 
two in forks of the big weed Triumfetta , the others on 
tangled bushes, one of which was thorny. They are bulky 
fabrics, though the cup-shaped cavity inside is small. The 
material is grass-blades and in one strips of maize-blades 
mixed with the “ silk ” of maize-ears ; and all are lined with 
the finest grass-tops. Three nests contained two eggs each, 
the fourth two nestlings. 
The eggs vary in length from 16’5 to 18 mm., and in 
breadth from 12 to 13*5 mm. No. 395, the specimen figured, 
measures 17 X 13*5 mm. 
[They vary in shape from a wide oval to a rather narrow 
oval, and are slightly glossy. The ground is pinkish-white, 
