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Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 
[Six eggs are of a nearly perfect oval form and distinctly 
glossy. The ground-colour is pale bluish-green or greenish- 
white, either blotched and clouded, especially round the 
larger end, with pale light red and grey, or minutely and 
densely freckled all over with pale light red, forming a 
more or less distinct zone round the larger end.—G.-G.] 
2073. Apalis binotata. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 320. 
This rather rare little bird has been obtained only at the 
Ja. There it is found in the open country of old clearings, 
where it has been seen in small trees, or in the tangle of 
vines hanging from trees, hopping and flitting from twig 
to twig, looking for insects. 
No. 1488 was shot with bow and arrow in its nest, and 
the bird and the nest brought to me. The latter was a 
loosely woven little pocket suspended from a twig, and 
composed entirely of the Usnea that fringes the limbs of 
old trees, with a very few brown gossamer-fibres to attach 
it to the twig, and a slight lining of fine grass. An egg 
in the nest was broken. 
2093. Camaroptera griseiviridis. [Tinkwat.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 321. 
Very common amongst the brush of felled trees in 
plantations and gardens, through which it is continually 
threading its way, looking for insects. Its loud sharp-toned 
notes have already been described (‘The Ibis/ 1908, p. 322). 
The note is not always repeated just five times, but sometimes 
six or eight times. 
No. 1495 was shot with bow and arrow in its nest, 
which contained three naked young birds, just hatched. It 
was, with great ingenuity, attached to the stem and two 
large leaves of an “ ajom ” ( Amomurn) in such a manner as 
to hang from them, one of the leaves being arched over it so 
as to form a perfect roof. The main material of the nest 
was very fine fibres; over the outside was a covering of 
