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No. 1999 was a sitting female, shot with bow and arrow 

 on its nest. This £al)ric was a " poor excuse " for a nest — 

 a mere pad of dry tendrils and weed-stalks mixed together, 

 so small that the bird would completely cover and hide it. 

 There was a little depression on the top, where the one egg 

 had been laid. The egg reached me broken, along with a 

 tiny nestling just emerged from the shell. 



[A broken e^^, apparently of a rather blunt oval shape 

 and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale yellowish- 

 clay colour, rather densely spotted all over, especially round 

 the larger end, where the under-markings form an irregular 

 clouded zone, with small spots and dots of dull reddish-brown 

 and dark grey. — O.-G.] 



1136. NiCATOR viREO. [Ekoug, or Ntyong.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 335. 



This smaller green Shrike, which I found only at the Ja, 

 is not so shy as its larger relative, and its loud and pleasing 

 song is very frequently heard. This song is one of the most 

 striking sounds of the bird- world in that district. It may 

 be likened to a bugle-call of half-a-dozen notes, mostly in 

 one tone, but with one or two towards the end in a higher 

 pitch, the last one or two dropping again to the pitch of the 

 first. It may be heard at almost any time of the day. When 

 singing the bird perches amongst the foliage of some tree, 

 usually high and out of sight. 



Dryoscopus bocagii. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 331. 



Chlorophoneus bocagei Reich. V. A. ii. p. 557. 



It certainly seems fitting, from what I know of this bird 

 in life, to have it placed in the same genus as D. seneyalemis 

 and D. tricolor. I became acquainted with the two latter 

 (which I supposed were one, never suspecting that I had 

 met with two species of these birds) at Efulen, and there 

 learned to kuow their various calls, which I have since heard 

 them (or one of them) make at Bitye, in the Ja region (see 

 ' The Ibis,' 1908, p. 333) . At Bitye I shot several of D. bocagei 

 at different times. I found them skulking in the foliage of 



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