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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
An adult male specimen exhibits a peculiarity in plumage 
which I take to be a remarkable individual variation, as I 
have never seen another like it. The feathers of the back 
are very finely cross-barred with a lighter shade of colour. 
Otherwise it is a perfectly typical example of Andropadus 
virens. 
Nests of this Otok, which have been shown to me along 
with the sitting birds caught on them, were always composed 
largely of dry leaves, so that they fell to pieces readily when 
handled. They were found in the thickest places in hikdtok , 
always near the ground. One had in it three nestlings, and 
the old bird (the male) had been shot with bow and arrow 
while feeding its young. These nestlings, as well as other 
young birds seen, had the tongue and inside of the mouth 
bright orange ; but in this species much of this colour is to 
be seen also in the mouths of adults. 
The number of eggs in six clutches, brought in the nest 
along with the sitting birds, was always two. They vary from 
20 to 22 mm. in length, and from 14 5 to 15*5 mm. in width. 
The description already given of the first two eggs found 
Ibis, 5 1909, p. 59) applies to all these eggs. 
Ixonotus GUTTATUs. [Ntyetyal.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 638; 1907, p. 463 ; Bates, Ibis, 
1905, p. 97. 
It has already been noted that the Ntyetyal feeds in small 
flocks. A specimen shot recently, with a marked brood-spot 
and other indications of sitting, was one of such a flock. 
The birds do not seem to wander far, but frequent one place, 
at least, where there are trees with the fruit on which they 
feed. 
There is a marked difference in the colour of the iris in 
the two sexes ; in the male it is brown, in the female 
greyish-white. Note that in this species it is the female, in 
Andropadus indicator the male, that has a white iris. 
Two nests have been found, both in small trees : one 
contained a single nestling ; the other two eggs, which 
were broken by the shot that killed the bird. The nests 
