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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
No. 4538, a young male with light bill, has the parts of 
the plumage that are red in the adult, red and black mixed. 
No. 3799, a female not quite adult (bill black), has a few red 
feathers on the throat and chest. It looks as if this young 
female had had a plumage like that of the young male, but 
was becoming quite black like the adult females. 
Malimbus rubricollis. [Nga’a-minkan.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 351. 
Nos. 4028 & 4339. 
Young birds, both certainly females, shot at Bitye, have 
red on the head, though of a duller hue than in adults; and 
this red colour includes the forehead, as in adult males . In 
adult females the forehead is black. 
Ploceus amatjrocephalus. [Nga’a-minkan.] (Plate IX. 
fig. 16, egg.) 
Sycohrotus amaurocephalus Cab. J. f. 0. 1880, p. 349. 
Sycobrotus bicolor Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 349. 
Ploceus bicolor Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 42. 
No. 3372, young, has the head not so black and the back 
not so grey as adults. 
Another nest of this Weaver brought to me was like those 
already described. Nests of this species differ from those 
of P. cucullatus , P. nigerrimus , and P. nigricollis in being 
rougher, and composed of stems and tendrils; while they 
have not such a long entrance-tube as those of the different 
species of Malimbus. 
With the nest mentioned was brought the sitting female 
bird, which had been pierced by an arrow while in the nest. 
There were three eggs (Nos. 337-339), measuring respectively 
22*5 X 16, 22 X 16*5, and 22 x 15*5 mm. 
[Eggs of a regular oval form, slightly glossy. Ground¬ 
colour pale bluish-white, rather sparingly spotted and 
blotched over the entire shell with various shades of pale 
brown and lilac-grey.—O.-G.] 
[To be continued.] 
