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Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 
creamy-white, covered all over with spots of umber-brown 
and with spots and small blotches of dark grey and lilac-grey, 
most numerous round the larger end.—O.-G.] 
1759. Phyllostrephus orientalis. 
Phyllostrephus scandens orientalis Reich. Y. A. iii. p. 398. 
Nos. 2873. $ > 2874. $ , 2881. $ • River Ja, Jan. 25 & 28, 
1908. 
These specimens were shot on the bank of the River Ja, 
where I was camping for a few days. The first pair were 
heard making a great racket in the tree-tops over my tent 
when 1 woke in the morning. Their noise was peculiar, being 
of the same sort of ringing and yet guttural tone heard in the 
“ talking ” of the Ngomejal ( Phyllostrephus leucopleurus), but 
with more of the ringing quality. The pair were making 
this noise together, both “ talking ” at once, like the “ Nkes ” 
(P. simplex). Their breeding-organs were much enlarged. 
These birds must keep to the river-bank ; else I should have 
got them where I had collected a great deal before, only a 
few miles away. 
1760. Phyllostrephus leucopleurus. [Ngomejal.] 
Bleda leucopleura Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 460. 
I cannot characterize the “ Ngomejal” better than I have 
done already (‘ The Ibis,’ 1905, p. 97). But I can add that a 
nest of the bird has been shown to me, though too badly torn 
up to be described. It was taken in October, on a swamp- 
palm-tree, and contained two well-grown nestlings. 
1782. Andropadus virens. [Otok.] 
Reich. Y. A. iii. p. 412. 
Eurillas virens Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 462. 
Here, again, I use the generic name adopted by Reichenow, 
so as to have all the species of “Otok” in the same genus, 
for they are certainly much alike, 
My note under the head of “Eurillas camerunensis ” 
(‘ The Ibis/ 1907, p. 462) should have been attributed to 
E. virens. This is the commonest species. It is that of 
