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halfway from tlie Ja to the coast, on my way to England 

 last April, a pair of Psalidoprocne nitens (known by their 

 square tails) entered and perched on a paper ornament 

 hanging from the ceiling. Mr. Hope, who lives in the 

 house, said that they had done this often during several days, 

 and had brought mud and tried to stick it to the ceiling, 

 which is covered with cloth, but the mud would not stick. 

 This is all the more remarkable, since the usual breeding- 

 place of the species is in holes dug in banks, and not in mud 

 nests of their own building. 



1000. Fraseria ocreata. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 328. 



No. 2613. c? ad. Akok, between Efulen and Kribi, July 

 10, 1907. 



In my Ijrief note on this bird (/. c.) I said " I have been 

 told it has a song.'' I had been correctly informed. When 

 on my collecting-trip to Akok, between Efulen and the 

 coast, in July, one day about noon a bird-song of rare 

 sweetness and variety was heard in the tree-tops over the 

 camp. It was a surprising performance, and both I and 

 my boys were soon looking to see the bird from which it 

 came. We found it at length and followed it from tree 

 to tree, as it went, continually singing in an excited manner. 

 The song was made up of a great variety of notes, some 

 imitating the call-notes of other birds (such as Dicrurus 

 atripennis and Bias musicus). Mingled in its song were also 

 the buzzing call-notes that I already knew well as those of 

 Fraseria ocreata. Soon another bird of the same kind, 

 singing in the same way, was heard near by. It was shot, 

 and its skin is No. 2613. But I had already seen the first 

 one plainly enough to be sure that it belonged to this 

 species. 



This song struck me as resembling that of Lanius mac- 

 kinnoni. It is characteristic of a Shrike to sing only 

 occasionally, and then with surprising sweetness. Reichenow 

 puts this genus among the Flycatchers. 



