598 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
the feet pale yellow. In the plumage the most notable 
peculiarity is that of ill-defined light tips to the larger wing- 
coverts, not distinct enough to form spots. 
The Nti-ejak is another forest-bird of which I have 
obtained one nest only. A sitting female (No. 4456) was 
shot by Nkolo on its nest, which was “ on some brush 
in the forest” and was a shallow, slight structure, com¬ 
posed of dark-coloured decaying leaves and sticks, with a 
few black rootlets and tendrils for lining. It was found in 
the wet season, on the 1st of November. The colour of the 
two eggs exactly matched that of the nest. One egg was 
broken, but the chick within was alive ; the other measured 
26’5 x 18 mm. ; the young bird was extracted without 
completely spoiling the specimen (No. 600). 
[The egg is somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is pale 
buff, almost obscured by dense blotches and markings of 
rich vandyke-brown and pale brown.—W. It. O.-G.] 
Phyllostropiius falkensteini. (Plate XI. fig. 15, egg.) 
Beich. V. A. iii. p. 391. 
Pycnonotus viridescentior Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 638; 
1907, p.464. 
Phyllostropiius viridescentior Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 56. 
My specimens appear to me to be of the same species as 
the bird from Landana. 
It is only lately that I have heard and seen this bird 
uttering its notes, for it is an unobtrusive and generally 
quiet species. Its notes sounded like those of P. simplex , 
but not so loud, and had the same peculiar tone as those 
of P. leucopleura , P. simplex , P. Jlavigula , and P. orienialis, 
which all sound like excited human talk. The type species 
of Phyllostropiius, which Levaillant called u Le Jaboteur,” 
must have similar notes. This fact seems to shew that the 
genus is a natural one. 
Three more nests, on which the sitting birds were caught 
at evening, have been shown to me, and resembled the one 
already described. They w r ere set in forks of ohong or 
cassava plants, and did not contain more than two eggs. 
