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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
was not very small, but the entrance was only the size of 
the finger (20 mm. in diameter). The nestlings (Nos. 4335 
and 4336) were brought in another such nest. These had 
the inside of the mouth and tongue uniform orange, without 
markings. 
In the nest first mentioned there were two eggs, but one 
was broken. The other (No. 476) measures 15 x 11 mm. 
[It is of a rather short and somewhat pointed oval shape 
and devoid of gloss. The ground is pale pink mottled all 
over with darker greyish-pink ; scattered all over the 
surface of the shell are a number of small spots and irregular 
marks of deep brown, with others smeared at the edges of 
paler yellowish-brown.—W. R. O.-G.] 
Cjnnyris obscurus. (Plate XI. figs. 20, 21, & 27, eggs.) 
Ci/anomitra obscura Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 331 ; Bates, 
Ibis, 1909, p. 61. 
Five more nests are now recorded, in w hich sitting birds 
of this species were caught or shot. These nests agree in 
every particular with the description already given; but 
one point may be added, by which nests of this and other 
Sunbirds may always be distinguished from those of 
Smithornis which they much resemble. In the latter long 
fibres or streamers hang down from the bottom of the nest; 
in Sunbirds^ nests there are also long hanging streamers, 
but they come from about the mouth or entrance of the 
nest, like a beard, and not from the bottom. 
The eggs in these nests always numbered two. All eggs 
measured have a width of 12 or 12*5 mm., but vary in 
length from 16 to 18 mm. 
[They are of an ordinary oval shape, somewhat pointed 
towards the smaller end, and devoid of gloss. The eggs 
exhibit three very distinct types. In the first the ground 
is pale greenish-stone-colour mottled with yellowish- 
brown, and with somewhat rounded spots and blotches of 
dark brown with the edges blending into the ground-colour. 
In the second, the ground is greyisli-white clouded with 
pale lilac-grey and with small spots and short dashes of 
