Birds of Southern Kamerun, 37 



1237. DicRURUs sHARPii Oust. [Fa-Beti.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 355. 



This smaller Drongo I never found about Efulen. In my 

 former note I said that " perhaps it does not venture out 

 into the depths of the forest, where D. atripennis is at home.^' 

 A longer acquaintance inclines me to modify this only by 

 striking out the word " perhaps/' 



A specimen shot just after leaving its nest proved to be a 

 sitting female. The nest was a neatly woven little cup, 

 composed of fine rootlets and stems with some lichens stuck 

 in, and attached or slung, hammock-fashion, to two twigs, 

 hanging between them, with the rim on a level with the 

 twigs. It was held together and to the twigs by gossamer 

 threads. The nest was small for the size of the bird, 

 measuring 55 mm. in width inside. There was one egg in it 

 and no trace of another. It measured 24 X 15*5 mm. 



[One egg of a long, pointed oval form and almost devoid 

 of gloss. The ground-colour is of a pinkish cream-colour, 

 with a very faintly marked zone of indistinct lilac spots 

 round the larger end. — O.-G.] 



Lamprocolius splendidus glaucovirens. [Kwang.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 357. 



The Kwang (the name pronounced in a high explosive 

 tone to imitate the ringing call of the bird) is found in all 

 places where I have collected. It visits trees which bear the 

 fruits that it eats, especially the '' aseng " {Musanga smithii), 

 wherever they are found, but is more frequently seen in the 

 opener country than in the forest. It perches high, and in 

 this and in its brilliant dress and ringing cries exhibits a 

 sort of proud, or martial, bearing. Besides its usual stirring 

 call, it sometimes utters a loud but sweet piping note, like 

 that of the American Red-winged Blackbird. When it flies 

 it makes a rushing sound with the wings ; and it does not 

 do so only occasionally and voluntarily, but always. The 

 Kwang are inclined to gather together in flocks to feed, and 

 sometimes collect in large companies to go to roost. But 

 I have seen such flocks seldom. I once had a notion that 



