4 ]\Ir. G. L. Bates — Field-Xotes on the 



ground in the forest^ and baited with termites strewed 

 around, was described very Avell in the tirst letter I wrote 

 to Dr. Sharpe years ago (see 'Ibis,' 1904, p. 92). But 

 I did not then know the birds very well, snd by the 



Text-fio". 2. 



Native setting snares for birds in a Cassava-patch. 



" Ntyou " 1 meant Bleda notata. Criniger chloronotus is 

 one of the species that are never captured in this way. 

 Birds that are caught in numbers by means of these snares 

 baited with termites are Bleda syndactyla, the different 

 i^eciQs oi Neocossyphus, Turdinus, Alcthe, and Calleae, and 



