620 
Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
with one or more leaves for a roof., in the manner already 
described. Its building materials are so light, consisting 
largely of fine white down, that they scarcely bend down 
the leaves to which the nest is attached. 
Seven clutches of eggs, brought in the nests with the 
sitting birds, consisted of two each, excepting one of three. 
They vary in length from 16 to 18 mm., and iu width from 
11 to 12 mm. 
[Eleven eggs vary in shape from an ordinary oval to a 
rather long narrow oval form, and are somewhat glossy. 
The ground-colour is pale bright greenish-blue, either plain 
or sparingly marked all over the shell with small spots and 
dots of pale reddish-brown and lilac. 
Two eggs are pure white. 
Most of these eggs differ considerably from one taken 
by Mr. E. J. Jackson in British East Africa, and figured 
in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, xix. pi. xix. 
fig. 10 (1910), the ground of wdiich is white with larger 
markings of yellowish-brown and pale grey.—W. B. O.-G.] 
Camaroptera chloronota. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 322. 
Nos. 3230. S ad. Assobam. 3410, 3933, 4090. All 
B ad. Bitye. These specimens have the throat greyish- 
white, and varying amounts of greenish colour on the chest 
and of white on the abdomen. Wing 53 to 58 mm.; tail 
28 to 35 mm. 
Nos. 3845, 4346. Both $ ad. Bitye. Throat greyish- 
white ; chest tinged with greenish. Wing 50 and 53, tail 
27 and 25 mm. 
No. 4478. Sex? Bitye. Wing 52, tail 20 mm. (Pro¬ 
bably $ .) 
No. 3323. S immature. Assobam. Throat and chest 
pale brownish-yellow. Wing 55, tail 34 mm. 
Nqs. 3324. Assobam; 3668. Bitye. Both $ imm. Throat 
brownish-white. Wing 50 mm. in both ; tail 27 and 20 mm. 
Difference of age explains the variations of colour in 
the throat and chest; difference of sex may explain the 
shorter or longer wings and tails, except in tw r o or three of 
