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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
leaves of the Calamus palm, laid or woven together loosety, 
with an opening at one side, and lined with a few fine 
grass-tops. 
The three eggs (Nos. 536, 537, & 538) found in the nest 
are white, without gloss, and measure respectively :—20 x 14, 
19*5 x 14, and 19 x 14 mm. 
Quelea erythrops. 
Reichenow, Y. A. iii. p. 111. 
No. 3433. S • Bitye, February 1909. 
This single specimen, the only one I ever saw, was shot 
with bow and arrow by my boys, who said it was in a flock 
with other small Weaver-birds. 
Pyromelana flammiceps. [Kuleso.] (Plate XI. fig. 8, 
egg-) 
I have mentioned ( f Ibis,’ 1909, p. 49) the characteristic 
of the nests of the Kuleso, that the entrance or vestibule 
appears unfinished. Of several nests found since, three 
had no continuous tube at all, but consisted only of the 
sack part, woven in connexion with a vertical wreath 
attached to the weed-twigs, which formed the foundation 
of the nest. 
With one nest, containing two eggs, were brought two 
female birds, both said to have been caught in the nest at 
night. One had a marked brood-spot, the other had none, 
but was found on dissection to have recently laid eggs. 
As the eggs were alike in every particular, and both partly 
incubated, they must have belonged to the bird with the 
brood-spot. The other seems to have gone into the wrong 
nest for the night. 
A nestling, beginning to get its feathers, had the inside 
of the mouth deep fleshy-red and the swollen margin of the 
gape white. Very young nestlings had the colour inside 
the mouth not nearly so bright. 
Of five clutches of eggs saved since those previously 
reported, three consisted of two eggs each, two of three 
each. The measurements of these vary from 19 to 175 mm. 
in length and from 14 5 to 13 mm. in breadth. 
[Some of the specimens recently collected are uniform 
