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at all times of year. One of the species on which most 

 observations have been made is Pcedilorhynchus camerunensis, 

 and it has been found bi-eeding in February, March, April, 

 June, September, October, and December — that is, at all 

 seasons. The apparent preference of Elminia lomjicanda for 

 the month of June has already been noticed in 'The Ibis' 

 (1907, p. 456) ; but such an exceptional thing as a distinct 

 breeding-season for this species would require a very great 

 number of observations to prove it. 



There are no more constant breeders amonj? the birds 

 than the Paradise Flycatchers [Tchitrea). The commonest 

 species, T. viridis, has been found breeding generally by 

 being caught or shot on the nest, in every mouth of the year 

 except two; and in both of these two months breeding-birds 

 of one of the other species of Tchitrea have been recorded. 

 There is not a single record of an adult T. viridis with 

 the breeding-organs small or of an adult male without the 

 long tail-plumes. 



The Shrikes. — Of no one species of the Shrike-family is 

 the record complete througliout the year. But I have 

 recorded breeding-specimens or nests of some of the species 

 in every one of the four seasons. 



The Stardings. — There are breeding-birds of some of the 

 three species in each of the diy seasons, and none in the 

 rainy seasons; but the observations are not so numerous 

 as in the case of some families. 



The Ploceine Weavers. — Birds belonging to the section 

 Ploceincs of the Weaver family (with two exceptions) breed 

 at all seasons. Whenever nests of the Village-Weaver 

 [Hyphantornis) have been pulled down and examined, some 

 of them have been found to contain nestlings or eggs. This 

 has been done, according to my records, in seven months of 

 the year and in each of the four seasons. The record 

 of Heterhypliantes nigricoUis shews breeding-birds or nests 

 with eggs in seven months and at all four seasons. The more 

 scattered records of the other birds of Reichenow's genus 

 P/oceus, and of the genus Malimbus, shew breeding-birds in 

 both rainy and dry seasons, in both halves of the year. The 



