600 
Mr. G. L. Bates on ihe 
twisted well-defined lines, scrolls, blotches, and spots of 
ricli vandyke-brown and faint lilac-grey. In one egg with 
a white ground the markings are all concentrated in a 
wreath of twisted lines round the larger end.—W. B. O.-G.] 
Phyllostrophus flavigula. [Nkes.] (Plate XI. 
fig- 10 > e gg-) 
Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 57. 
Bleda flavigula Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 458. 
I have now learnt to distinguish the notes of this Nkes 
from those of P. simplex. 
A few nests of this species have been brought, with the 
sitting bird caught or killed. Some of these nests w r ere 
taken from higher situations than those of P. simplex , 
in small trees on cleared ground around villages. No 
tendrils were used in their construction. Other nests 
agree very well with the one already described (/. c .). The 
clutch consists of two eggs. 
Nestlings have the inside of the mouth orange, and the 
swollen margin of the gape yellowish-w'hite. 
I have had unusual bad luck with the eggs of this species, 
and only two (Nos. 348 and 349) are perfect : both measure 
24 x 16 - 5 mm. 
[They are much more heavily marked than the broken 
one already described Ibis/ 1909, p. 57). The ground¬ 
colour is pale buff, almost obscured by dense blotches 
and markings of rich vandyke-brown and paler brown.— 
W. R. O.-G.] 
Phyllostrophus orientalis. 
Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 58. 
Nos. 3144 £, 3178 , 3220 ? , and 3300 ? . Assobam, 
Dec. 1908. 
These birds are not P. scandens , and I think, by com¬ 
paring them with the original description by Hartlaub and 
the figure (Zool. Jahrb. 1887, pi. xi.), that they belong 
to the species described from Emin's collection on the 
Upper Welle River as P. orientalis. The bird has been 
both seen and heard by me, and is one of those whose 
