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trace of the chestnut patch on the flanks that marks adult 
females. 
A male of this species (No. 3868), which had been shot 
just as it left the nest, was brought to me. The nest con¬ 
tained two eggs, and are similar to a nest and eggs brought 
to me a few years ago which were thought to belong to this 
Shrike. The nest of No. 3868 was securely placed among a 
number of twigs ; it was bulky, made of fine fibres, grass or 
weed-stalks, tendrils, and maize “ silk.” 
The eggs measure 23*5 x 17‘5 and 23 x 18 mm. 
[Eggs of Mackinnon’s Shrike are of a regular oval form, 
devoid of gloss, and have the ground-colour pale creamy 
white, finely spotted and speckled all over with pale yellowish- 
brown and lilac-grey, the markings, which are everywhere 
rather faint, being most numerous towards the larger end 
and in some specimens forming a regular wreath.—O.-G.] 
Dicrurus sharpii. [T’a-Beti]. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 355; Bates, 1909, p. 37. 
No. 3774, a female with signs of recent incubation, was 
shot by myself near its nest, where it had been feeding its 
young. The nest was on a thin horizontal branch of a little 
tree, only ten feet from the ground, in an old ekotok. When 
the parent birds found me near their nest, one of them 
scolded me vociferously, alternating its scolding noise with 
its clear song-notes; it thus attracted quite a crowd of little 
Sunbirds and other species, including a Touraco, to the place. 
The nestlings were perfectly naked, with yellowish skins. 
They had the tongue and inside of the mouth deep yellow, 
without markings. The yellow colour persists at the base of 
the tongue in fully adult birds, after the rest of the tongue 
has become black like the bill. 
The nest above mentioned was just like that already 
described (Ibis, 1909, p. 37), and suspended in the same 
manner between two twigs. The principal material consisted 
of Usnea stems, and probably the same material was used 
in the construction of the other nest, though I described it 
as “ fine rootlets.” 
