Birds of Southern Cameroon . 537 
of Birds’ Eggs in the British Museum/ voh iv. pis. xii. & 
xiii.-O.-G.] 
Chlorophoneus bocagii. 
Dryoscopus bocagei Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 331; Bates, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 35. 
A young bird (No. 3881) has the whole upper surface 
finely barred, the wing-coverts tipped with light yellowish- 
brown, and the under surface—the ground-colour of which 
is yellowish-white—finely barred with dark colour. A still 
younger bird (No. 4263) is similarly marked, but is without 
the yellowish tinge beneath. A nearly adult bird (No. 4058, 
$ ) has still a few light tips on the wing-coverts. The 
young birds have the tongue and inside of the mouth orange, 
the tongue being dark or black at the base, but not in defined 
spots. 
Chlorophoneus reichenowi. 
Cosmophoneus reichenowi Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, p. 393 
Nos. 1525, 2162, 2190, 4124. Adult Bitye, R. Ja. 
No. 3373. Adult $. Efayong, R. Ja. 
No. 1463. ? . Bitye, R. Ja. 
Chlorophoneus batesi. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 330. 
Nos. 3607, 3627 ( ?’s) ; 3612, 3626, 3781, 3786, 3791, 
4146, 4176, 4237 (J’s). All killed at Bitye, River Ja. 
No. 3374. Young $ . Efayong, R. Ja. 
The evidence of these specimens confirms Dr. Sharpe’s 
opinion that this is a species distinct from C. multicolor . 
Some of the male specimens have, indeed, more or less 
green instead of black in the tail, and in this respect 
approach C. multicolor ; but such birds seem, from other 
considerations, to be hardly adult. All specimens of 
C. multicolor have green tails. Females of C. batesi have 
about as much of the under surface scarlet as males of 
C. multicolor , while the females of the latter have no 
scarlet. There seems to be an evolution going on in both 
these species towards more black and scarlet in the plumage, 
