526 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
with very fine dots and minute spots of maroon-red and lilac- 
grey, most numerous towards the larger end. In two 
specimens (394 and 395) the larger end is washed with dull 
pink forming an indistinct cap.—O.-G.] 
Bias mcjsicus. [Ivulityang.] (Plate IX. fig. 9, egg.) 
Ibis, 1904, p. 626; 1905, p. 94; 1907, p. 450. 
The Kulityang makes its nest in the smaller trees of 
old cleared ground about villages. It is a shallow cup 
composed of fine dry leaf-petioles and stems, without any 
soft lining; and is bound about with a netting of cobwebs, 
like the nests of other Flycatchers. The inside diameters, 
measured in different directions at the top, vary from 50 to 
60 mm. Along with one nest were brought a pair of old 
birds, the female with a brood-spot, the male with large 
testes and in worn plumage. The boy who brought them said 
that he first shot one of the birds on the nest with his bow ; 
then the other came and sat on the same nest, when he shot 
it also. There were two eggs, but only one (No. 496) was 
saved. It measures 21 X 16 mm. 
[The egg is of a rather wide oval form, slightly pointed 
towards the smaller end and devoid of gloss. The ground 
is pale bluish-green, with a rather wide dense zone round 
the larger end formed of small spots and blotches of umber- 
brown and lilac-grey, and a few small scattered markings 
over the rest of the shell.—O.-G.] 
Smithornis camerunensis. [Mbamezok.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 451 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 31. 
Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 400. 
In reporting an additional nest and eggs, brought with a 
sitting female bird (No. 3090), it is only necessary to note 
that the materials of the nest were long stringy fibres, 
probably of dried bark of the weed Triumfetta or of dried 
plantain leaf-stalks—such things as are found in bikdtok and 
not in the forest; that this nest contained three eggs, while 
previous ones had only twb; and that these eggs were a 
little shorter than those obtained before, all three measur¬ 
ing 22 x 15*5 ram. 
