588 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
thickened and yellowish-white, with two enlargements or 
gape-wattles in it on each side. The inside o£ the mouth 
was pale yellow, and there were three large black spots on 
the palate, with another small one on each side near the 
gape, as figured (text-fig. 16, A, p. 590). 
The statement made by me in an early letter to 
Dr. Sharpe, and published in f The Ibis ’ (1902, p. 90), that 
I had seen the Edumvin building in high trees in the 
forest, was a mistake, due to my confounding this bird with 
a Malimhus. The Edumvin is a humble bird, and spends 
its life in bushes near the ground. Two nests were found 
last year in such situations, besides one or two others not 
recorded. 
These nests were loose globular piles of ferns with a 
central portion of grass-tops, in shape like those of Estrilda , 
with an opening at the side; some soft white pappus was 
placed inside for lining, and in one case some feathers 
that were not the bird^s own. Each nest contained three 
white eggs devoid of gloss; those of one clutch measure 
19 or 19*5 x 14 mm., while those of the other all measure 
19 5 x 13*5 mm. 
Pyrenestes ostrinus. [Edumvin.]' 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 347. 
An adult female (No. 3608) is a somewhat smaller bird 
than any of the others, which include males and females, 
and has a much smaller bill, the length of the culmen being 
12 mm., and the width of the bill at the base the same, 
while in the other adult female the length was 15 and the 
w T idth 16 mm. These birds weie all from the same locality. 
The gape-wattles and the black spots on the palate of an 
immature specimen (No. 3135) were much like those of 
Spermospiza guttata (cf. text-fig. 16, A, p. 590)* 
This Edumvin is found in swampy places overgrown with 
the sedges which the people used formerly to cut and burn 
to obtain salt from the ashes, and it feeds on their hard 
seeds. A sitting female (No. 4347) was brought in with 
a nest, which was said to have been found, in such a place. 
The nest was a large globular mass of dry broad strips of 
