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Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
Bupiiaga aericana. [Sae-nyat.] 
Reich. V. A. ii. p. 666. 
No. 4209. . Bitye, June 1910. The tongue, which is 
thick and fleshy, and the inside of the mouth are red. The 
stomach contained several ticks, mostly cut in two, and a 
large fly. The edges of the bill, or tomia , are very sharp. 
Nkolo, who shot the bird, one of a pair sitting on a dead 
tree, saw no sign of large animals near. I had long heard 
of the Sae-nyat (a Bulu name which is almost equivalent to 
“Ox-pecker,” “nyat” meaning Buffalo), but I never obtained 
an example before. 
O NYC H OGN A T H US II A RT LA UB I. 
Reich. V. A. ii. p. 702. 
No. 3137. $ (shewing signs of incubation). Bitye, Oct. 
1908. The stomach contained some dry seeds. 
Though this species is rare, the condition of the specimen 
mentioned shews that it breeds about Bitye. It was the 
only one obtained, but others were seen in tall trees near 
my house and several times shot at but not killed. 
Lamprocolius splendidus. [Ivwang.] (Plate IX. figs. 7, 
11, eggs.) 
Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 264. 
Lamprocolius glaucovirens Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 357. 
Lamprocolius splendidus glaucovirens Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 37. 
A young bird just able to fly is noted as having the 
metallic colours of the plumage nearly as bright as in the 
adult. No. 4118, somewhat younger, was taken from a 
knot-hole in a dead tree ; it had the inside of the mouth 
flesh-coloured tinged with yellow, and the tongue dark, be¬ 
coming black at the base. Two younger nestlings, also taken 
from a knot-hole in a tree, had the mouth inside of a yellowdsh 
flesh-colour. All had a conspicuous white mouth-flange or 
gape-margin. All these young birds and two clutches of 
eggs were found in the months of August, September, and 
October. 
No. 4438, a female with a very marked brood-spot, w r as 
shot by Nkolo just after it had flown out of its hole in a tree. 
