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with obscure clouded markings of olive and grey concen¬ 
trated into an irregular zone round the larger end; over 
these lie various irregular lines and scrolls of umber-brown, 
producing a marbled appearance.—O.-Gr.] 
1754. PhYLLOSTREPHUS SIMPLEX. [NkeS.] 
Bleda simplex Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 459. 
The “ Nkes 33 is not a retiring bird. When I called it 
“ shy” in my former note (‘ The Ibis,’ 1905, p. 96) I ought 
to have spelled it “ sly.’ 3 Its peculiar “ talk 33 is one of the 
commonest sounds in the bushes about villages, yet it flits 
about so quickly and hides so adroitly that it is hard to 
shoot. And when I said u it goes alone or in pairs , 33 I 
might as well have omitted the word u alone . 93 I never saw 
any other bird so continually accompanied by its mate. A 
pair of them seem inseparable and are always very near 
each other. When one “Talks,” the other chimes in so 
promptly that the two often sound like one bird ; and in the 
days before I was fully acquainted with the “ Nkes ” I must 
have often supposed that I heard only one when there were 
really two. 
1756. Phyllostrephus flavigula (Cab.). [Nkes.] 
Bleda flavigula Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 458. 
No. 2386. ? ; oviduct and abdomen of a sitting bird. 
Bitye, March 28, 1907. 
This bird is called in Bulu by the same name as P. simplex , 
and my boys, who have shot it, say that it is similar in habits 
and voice to that bird. My specimen (No. 2386) was caught 
on the nest. This much resembles that of Pycnonotus 
yabonensis except in material, for it is entirely made of rather 
coarse leaf-petioles, with a few dry leaves in the base, and 
some brown adhesive woolly fibre-like cobweb holding it 
together on the outside. It was set in the angle of a palm- 
leaf stalk. The one egg was too much broken to measure, 
but appeared to be about the size of that of Pycnonotus 
gabonensis. 
[A broken egg appears to have been of a blunt pointed 
oval shape and slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale 
