THE IBIS. 



NINTH SERIES. 



No. IX. JANUARY 1909. 



[. — Field-Notes on the Birds of Southern Kamerun, West 

 Africa, By G. L. Bates, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plates I. & II. and Text-figures 1-3.) 



These notes form a supplement to the series of papers on 

 n)y birds by Dr. Bowdler Sliarpe, who has given to my 

 collections much of their value by his account of them. 

 They would have fitted in well with his papers, but it was 

 impossible to publish them in th;it way, not only because 

 they were not prepared in time, but also because many of 

 the facts now given were not ascertained till long after I had 

 sent home the specimens of the birds referred to. The 

 information here given has been gathered slowly, during 

 a number of years. Some of the notes have already been 

 published with Dr. Sharpens papers in 'The Ibis' (1904, 

 pp. 89, 592; 1905, pp. 89, 462 ; 1907, p. 416; 1908, pp. 117, 

 317). Hence a complete account can be obtained only by 

 referring to them. To some groups of birds, such as the 

 Accipitres, I have added very little here. 



I collected from 1901 till 1904 at and about Efulen, but 

 made three short trips to the Ja River in the latter part of 

 that period. After a journey home, in 1904-1905, I again 

 returned to Africa, and collected at Efulen in the latter year 

 till September, when I made a trip much farther towards 

 the interior than I had gone before, into the Njiem or Zima 



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