Birds of Southern Cameroon. 605 
about villages. I have recorded and saved the eggs of those 
nests only with which the sitting bird was brought. The 
bird was usually caught on the nest by boys in the evening ; 
with one nest the boy brought both birds alive (a breeding 
male and a female with brood-spot), and stated that when he 
captured the latter on the nest, after dark, her mate can e 
to defend her and was taken by hand. 
Young birds have the swollen margins of the gape white 
and the inside of the mouth deep red. Adult birds have 
much orange-colour on the inside of the mouth. 
Twenty-two eggs have been measured. The largest were 
two from different nests, each 24x17 mm.; the shortest 
were Nos. 515 and 515 «, from one nest, 20 x 16-5 mm. and 
20x16 mm., but some eggs that w r ere not so short were 
narrower than these, the narrowestmeasuring 21*5 x 14 # 5mm. 
[The recent collections include at least three types of eggs, 
which are very distinct from the ordinary fine-spotted form 
already described Ibis,’ 1909, p. 60). 
Nos. 501, 502. One pair has the markings larger and of 
an unusually brilliant maroon, very densely crowded towards 
the larger end. 
Nos. 229, 230. In a second type the ground is pale 
pinkish-white, sparingly marked with small separate spots, 
blotches, and short irregular lines of light red and chocolate, 
with underlying rounded spots of pale lilac-grey. 
Nos. 515, 515 a. In yet a third type the eggs are shorter 
and the ground-colour is pink and with markings much as 
in the last (second) type, but the surface-markings are more 
numerous and nearly all light red.—W. It. O.-G.] 
ZOSTEROPS STENOCRICOTA. 
Reich. Y. A. iii. p. 432. 
Zosterops senegalensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 337. 
No. 246. $ . Efulen, 19 Nov., 1903. Length of wing 
50 mm. 
No. 4011. $ . Bitye, 12 Nov., 1909. Wing 52 mm. 
No. 4025. S • Bitye, 17 Nov., 1909. Wing 54 mm. 
A specimen skinned by a native, Bitye, Nov. 1909. 
Wing 53 mm. 
