34 Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 
apparently with its wings, like that made by the little Fly¬ 
catchers Diaphorophyia and Platystira. This noise is made 
only occasionally, and seems to he, like the song, an ex¬ 
pression of amorous feelings, or made to attract attention. 
This Shrike shares with Laniarius luehderi the same native 
name, and both are common birds of the “ bikotok,” though 
their calls and actions are different (see f The Ibis/ 1908, 
p. 330). But the Laniarius hides its nest in some place 
where it cannot be found, while I have come across several 
of the Pomatorhynchus. One, on which the bird was caught, 
sitting on two eggs, was the only one where I got the bird 
and at the same time saved the eggs. The nest, like other 
nests I have seen of this bird, was a very shallow cup of dry 
leaf-petioles, grass and other stems, the finer ones inside. 
It was rather slight and thin. One I found myself was set 
on the forks of a cassava-stem. In my notebook I have 
described the markings on these eggs (the two I saved) as 
being like a lot of punctuation marks of print—commas, 
hyphens, brackets, &c.—jumbled together. The size of these 
eggs was 24 x 17 mm. 
[The two eggs are of a regular or slightly pointed oval 
form and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pure 
white, rather sparingly marked, especially round the larger 
end, with small blotches and irregularly shaped spots and 
lines of brown and various shades of grey.—O.-G.] 
1134. Nicator chloris. [Ekong, or Ntyong.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 334. 
This bird lives in the borders of the forest, or among the 
higher trees of the second-growth, and generally keeps itself 
well hidden, for when it comes to the light its spotted wings 
make it conspicuous. The only sound ordinarily heard is a 
scolding noise, which is imitated in the explosive nasal 
sounds of the Bulu names. But on one occasion I watched 
it sing a song, in a loud clear tone, consisting of quite a 
variety of notes, some so much run together as to remind 
me of the peculiar trill of the Pomatorhynchus . The song 
was uttered languidly, a few notes at a time. 
