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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
The young birds, which are partly feathered, have no 
chestnut whatever in their plumage, but bear some resem¬ 
blance to the adults. The throat and chest, however, are 
white, as well as the rest of the under side, and above they 
are of a dull greyish-black. 
Another nest like the one described above was brought in 
with a sitting female (No. 3083) caught on the nest. The 
bird when held with a string tied to its foot made a snapping 
noise with its bill. Two eggs that were in the nest measure 
18 x 12 and 17'5 x 12‘5 mm. 
[They are of a rather long oval shape and somewhat glossy. 
The ground-colour is dull greenish-white, with a heavily 
blotched and spotted zone of umber-brown and dark grey 
round the larger end and with a few small scattered markings 
over the rest of the shell.—O.-G.] 
Erythrocercus maccalli. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 628 ; 1907, p. 453. 
This tiny forest bird does not feed singly, as other Fly¬ 
catchers do, but in little flocks, sometimes by themselves, 
sometimes in company with birds of other kinds in an 
ejak. They continually make an excited twittering in a fine 
insect-like tone of voice, which sometimes reminded me of 
a brood of very young chickens. They are never still for a 
second, but when on a twig continually turn themselves and 
spread their tails in the manner of Elminia longicauda. 
They search for insects among the foliage, and only once 
have I noticed them pursuing their prey in the air. 
This species was abundant about my camp at Assobam. 
The departure from the usual custom of Flycatchers 
extends also to the nidification of this species, judging 
from a nest that was brought by my boy with two nestlings 
in it, and a breeding male Erythrocercus maccallii , which he 
had shot “ at the nest/’ This nest looked almost like that 
of a Cisticola , being suspended from two small twigs and 
some of their leaves, to which it was fastened with cobwebs 
stuck on (not seivn as the nests of Cisticola and Prinia) ; 
it was composed of dry leaves with a little down inside, 
