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sometimes, in the forest, the Grouud-Dove {Calopclio) or 

 the Forest- Francolin [Francolinus lathami). Snares similarly" 

 set in the smaller second -growth forest often catch Cossyphi 

 and Warblers, such as ^w/'/jes/r/, and occasionally other birds. 

 When used in cassava-patches they catch the village Ground- 

 Doves [Chalcopelia) . Similar snares may be set in small 

 trees, the bent stick being tied to a twig. By doing this in 

 trees full of the fruits which the birds eat, certain species 

 are more easily, caught. One of the best trees for this is 

 the " A'bae," a species of Alcornia. Many kinds of birds eat 

 the catkin-shaped fruit of a big weed called " mvomijang/' 

 which is really a kind of pepper {Piper subpeltatum) , and 

 little snares are often fixed on these weeds. Likewi.-^e snares 

 set on a pepper-plant of another sort {Capsicum) catch 

 many birds. Flowering shrul)s, and especially that called 

 " tya'a " (Leea, of the order Ampelidese), attract many Sun- 

 birds, which are caught in numbers by little snares fixed 

 on the bunches of Hovvers. 



The general character of the country in Southern 

 Kamerun could not be better described by me now than has 

 b(en already done in 'The Ibis' (1904, p. 592). I wish to 

 emphasize again the distinctness, as regards their bird- 

 population, of the primitive forest from the smaller tangled 

 growth of trees, bushes, sedges, grass, and weeds which covers 

 ground that has been cleared and cultivated in former years. 

 Most birds belong strictly to one kind of country or the 

 other, and are seldom or never seen out of the kind to which 

 they belong. The region of the Ja is made up largely of 

 the opener country, from which the primitive forest has been 

 cleared. Hence the birds peculiar to this country ai-e 

 abundant there, and a number of species are found which do 

 not occur in the more densely forested district of Efulen. 

 Such are Pyromelana, Serinus, Colius, and the Kite, to name 

 only a few. It is noticeable that these are birds which have 

 a wide Ethiopian range. Those birds of the great forest 

 nearer the coast that were not found in the J a region, such 

 as Phasidus, Picathartes, and Geocichla, are mostly forms 

 peculiar to the West-African forest. Not very far to the 



