608 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
dark brown thinly scattered over the outer shell. In the 
third type the ground is greenish-white, finely and densely 
clouded, especially towards the larger end, with yellowish- 
brown and dull grey blotches, the latter being mostly 
arranged in a zone round the larger end.—W. R. O.-G.] 
Cinnyris verticalis. (Plate XI. fig. 16, egg.) 
Cinnyris verticalis Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p, 339. 
Sunbirds of this and other species used often to visit 
my Papaw ( Carica papaya) plants, that are always full of 
blossoms. One would perch and rapidly insert its bill into 
each of the flowers within reach, then move to a new part 
of the cluster. What they get in these flowers I believe to 
be nectar and not insects, for I often looked over a cluster 
of Papaw flowers and have found no insects in them. Butter¬ 
flies used to visit the same flowers in the same way. All Sun- 
birds eat small spiders, but they do not find these in flowers; 
and I have seldom seen true insects in their stomachs. 
A nest, in which a sitting female of this species was 
caught in the evening, was like that of C. ohscura , but 
even larger and more bulky, though those are also large for 
the size of the bird. The nest of C. verticalis had streamers 
a foot long hanging from the lower lip of the entrance. 
The two eggs in this nest (Nos. 462, 463) measure 
18*5 x 13*5 and 18 X 13‘5 mm. respectively. 
[They are of a regular oval shape, slightly pointed 
towards the smaller end, and devoid of gloss. The ground¬ 
colour is pale pink, sparingly marked with small dots, spots, 
and short dashes of deep chocolate-brown and underlying 
clouded markings of lilac-grey. In one specimen these 
markings are scattered over the greater part of the shell; 
in the second most of them form an ill-defined zone round 
the larger end.—W. R. O.-G.] 
Cinnyris cyanol^imus. 
Cyanomitra cyanolcema Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 339. 
No. 4259, ? i with a marked brood-spot, was brought 
with a nest and two eggs. This remarkable nest may be 
described as an exaggerated form of the SunbmPs hanging 
