540 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
The nestling* is coloured much like tl e older birds, and shews 
no sign of barred feathers or of light tips on the wing-coverts. 
Dryoscopus gambensis. 
No. 4368. $, breeding. Bitye, Aug. 1910. 
No. 4403. g, breeding. Bitye, Sept. 1910. 
Malaconotus gabonensis. [Ekolat.] (Plate IX. fig. 6, 
egg-) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 329. 
No. 4151 shews clearly the change from the immature to 
the adult plumage, for among the pale feathers of the abdo¬ 
men new ones of a deeper colour are growing. No. 3851, 
which is a much younger bird, with the plumage not fully 
grown, has the feathers of the head pale grey with buff tips, 
the throat, chest, and upper breast greyish-white, the lower 
breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale yellow ; the bill 
dark horn-coloured. Adult males have the breast somewhat 
redder than the females. Adults have the iris greyish-white; 
the bill black ; the feet pale bluish-grey. 
No. 3871, a breeding male, was shot near its nest, which 
was also brought to me with three eggs in it. This nest was 
shallow and loosely built of dry vines and small twigs and 
leaf-petioles, with the top and inside part of black rootlets. 
It was said to have been found on some leaning or crossing 
cane-like stems in ekotok. The eggs measure 28 to 28*5 mm. 
in length, and 20*5 mm. in width. No. 281 is figured. 
[The eggs are of a regular oval shape or slightly pointed 
towards the smaller end, and they are very slightly glossed. 
The ground-colour varies from pale pink to pinkish-wliite. 
The markings, which consist of spots and small blotches of 
rich maroon and pale purple, though scattered all over the 
shell, are chiefly concentrated in a wide irregular zone round 
the larger end.—O.-G.] 
Lanius mackinnomi. [Asese.] (Plate IX. figs. 5 & 8, eggs.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 328 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 36. 
Several young birds, fledglings or with the plumage hardly 
grown, have the characteristic finely-barred feathers of 
young Shrikes. Three of these that were females have no 
