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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
cries cannot be mistaken. It was met with at several 
places near the River Ja, and at my camp at Assobam 
near the River Bumba, always among the Raphia palms 
or other vegetation on the banks of streams. The fact 
that it was first met with on the eastern margin, and then 
at the extreme western edge of the Congo river-basin, 
makes it probable that the bird’s range follows all the 
streams of that system. 
A female (No. 3220), with a very marked brood-spot, 
was shot on the nest, which was found by my boys in a 
tree over a small tributary of the Bumba. This nest was 
hung, rather than set, between the forks of a twig, attached 
by means of woolly-looking cobweb and black hair-like 
fibres, forming a net around the outside, which was of dry 
leaves and palm-leaf strips. The two eggs were received 
broken, and could not be measured ; but they looked small 
for the size of the bird. 
[They appear to have been of a slightly pointed oval 
shape, and somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is dull 
creamy-white or pale stone-colour, with suffused clouded 
markings of greyish, especially towards the larger end, and 
with overlying small spots and short twisted markings and 
lines of umber-brown, most of the markings being more or 
less fused and indistinct.—W. R. O.-G.] 
Andropadus indicator. [Mali.] 
Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 384. 
Bleda hatesi Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 634 ; 1907, p. 461. 
Bleda indicator Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 460. 
Additional specimens clearly shew that, as Mr. Ogilvie- 
Grant has observed, the birds with the outer tail-feathers pure 
white, that were named B. batesi, represent the immature 
plumage of B. indicator. Two obviously immature birds 
were shot, in which the wdiite rectrices have no dark tips.. 
These two birds have another interesting peculiarity in that 
their rectrices are longer and more pointed than those of 
adults—a characteristic I have observed in the immature of 
many kinds of birds (see * Ibis/ 1911, p. 502 & fig. 13). 
