Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
Cll 
my small birds seem to be) : (1) tbe smaller size ; (2) tbe 
blue tips to tbe red breast-feathers ; (3) white under-wing 
coverts. Females I could distinguish from females of 
C. chloropygius by their smaller size only, and especially 
by their much shorter bills. 
Nos. 4166 and 4194 'were caught in their nests. These 
nests resembled those of C. chloropygius in construction, but 
were made of different materials, being composed of fine black 
rootlets and moss, stuck over with cobwebs, which hold 
many decorations of bits of whitish lichen, bark, dry leaves, 
and other scraps of dry vegetable matter. One nest 
contained one naked nestling, with the inside of the mouth 
orange, the tongue unmarked, and the swollen margin of 
gape whitish. The other nest, said to have been found 
hanging from two fern-fronds growing on the stem of a 
palm-tree (among the decorations on this nest were bits of 
dry male flowers of the palm), contained two eggs (Nos. 486, 
487) measuring 155 x 10 and 14*5 x 10 mm. 
[These eggs are of a rather long oval form and devoid of 
gloss. The ground is white with a greenish tinge spotted 
with dark ash-brown and blotched with dark lilac-grey, the 
markings being mostly arranged in an irregular ring round 
the larger end.—W. It, O.-G.] 
Anabathmis reichenbachi. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 340 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 63. 
Nos. 3390, 3466, 3983. All $ ad. Bitye. 
Nos. 3392, 3393,3447, 3465, 3469,3471, 3490. All ? ad. 
Bitye. 
Nos. 3456, 3480. ? young. Bitye. 
The adult females are smaller than the males, but exactly 
like them in every part of the plumage, even to the yellow 
pectoral tufts. The young birds represent two stages of 
immature plumage. No. 3480 is full-grown, with the bill 
as long as that of the adult; it is olive-green above, and 
the feathers of the crown have narrow metallic-blue edges ; 
beneath it is yellow, but some new feathers appearing on 
the throat are metallic-blue, and some on the breast are 
