602 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
Males of this species have the iris greyish or creamy- 
white, while females have the iris brown or brownish- 
grey. This fact was first noted by Mr. Jackson (‘Ibis/ 
1906, p. 539). A comparison of the recorded colour of the 
iris in my female specimens seems to shew the further 
interesting fact that in the younger birds it is browner, 
in the older greyer (or more nearly approaching the colour 
of the male.) 
In the allied Andropadus damans both sexes have the iris 
brown, but it seems to be of a lighter colour in the male. 
Andropadus latirostris. [Otok.] (Plate XI. figs. 17— 
19, eggs.) 
Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 386. 
Andropadus efulensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 461 ; Bates, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 59. 
Eurillas efulensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 636 ; Bates, Ibis, 
1905, p. 97. 
In this species the inside of the mouth, in both young and 
adult birds, is yellow, passing far back into orange. 
Several nests, all identified by obtaining the sitting bird, 
were found in the tangled undergrowth on the borders of the 
forest. They were loosely built, largely of dry leaves, and had 
a lining of the fine black hair-like fibres I have so often seen 
in forest-nests : I do not know their origin. One nest con¬ 
tained a single infertile egg, on which the hen bird seemed, 
from her condition, to have been sitting for a long time. This 
egg was remarkably small, measuring 19"5 x 14 mm. One 
of two larger eggs, of which the other was broken, measures 
25 x 16’5 mm.; the other pair measure 20 , 5x21*5 mm. in 
length by 15 mm. in width. These eggs do not vary materially 
in their colour and markings from those already described. 
Andropadus virens. [Otok.] (Plate XI. figs. 6, 7, & 9, 
eggs-) 
Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 58. 
Eurillas virens Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 635 ; 1907, p. 462. 
Eurillas camerunensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1902, p. 91 ; 1904, 
p. 636 ; 1907, p. 462. 
