534 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
Tchitrea rufo-cinerea. [Abelebele.] (Plate IX. figs. 
19 & 21, eggs.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. 631 ; 1907, p. 456; Bates, Ibis, 
1909, p. 33. 
This species is of a more retiring disposition than T.viridis, 
and keeps to the forest, but seems otherwise to resemble it 
in its habits. It has nearly the same calls and song, but in 
a more subdued tone, and has also been heard making an 
unusual chattering noise, something like that of a small 
squirrel. 
The colouring of the bill, eyelids, the inside of the mouth, 
and feet in this species is the same as in T. viridis and in 
T. tricolor. The iris in all three is very dark brown or black. 
Another male of T. rufo-cinerea was shot with bow 
and arrow, while sitting on the nest in the daytime, and 
another male was shot just after leaving the nest. A sitting 
female was caught on the nest at dusk in the evening. The 
six eggs from these three nests agree in measurements with 
the larger of the eggs of T. viridis , none varying more than 
half a millimetre from 19 X 14 mm. 
[In addition to those already described (‘ Ibis/ 1909, p. 33) 
the present colleciion contains eggs more profusely spotted 
and marked with light red and lilac-grey. These are almost 
inseparable from eggs of T. viridis. —O.-G.] 
Tchitkea plumbeiceps. 
Reich. Y. A. ii. p. 510. 
No. 1890. £ (testes small). Bitye, R. Ja, Aug. 1906. 
No. 3967. S (testes rather small). Bitye, R. Ja, Oct. 
1909. 
These specimens, the first of which was recorded by 
Dr. Sharpe under T. rufo-cinerea (‘Ibis/ 1907, p. 456), 
seem to be the first found farther north in West Africa 
than Manjanga on the Congo or (doubtfully) Landana. In 
neither do the middle rectrices appear to be fully grown, 
though in one they are already over a foot long. The colour 
of the bill, the ring around the eye, and the feet in No. 39fi7 
are of a paler blue than in any of the three other species 
