Fauna : Birds 



coloured Ground thrush {Pitta) (one of the Malayan forms 

 which reappears in West Africa) ; almost innumerable Weaver 

 birds ^ and Waxbills, some of them gorgeously coloured ; one or 

 more examples of the Metallic starlings, the " Pepper-bird," a 



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kind of bulbul {Pycnonotus harbatus\ a Thrush, an Oriole, a 

 good many Shrikes (some of them very brightly coloured), and 

 the familiar black and white Crow of Tropical Africa, Corvus 



' The larger weaver birds of the genus Hyphantornis, principally, hang their 

 nests on the fronds of oil palms, which they completely strip of their filaments. 



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