of Birds in Southern Kamerun. 567 



Perhaps it is a habit brought from another region, as the 

 grass-lands lying to the north. 



The Pycnonuiidts. — Of no kinds of birds have more 

 individuals been examined than of Bleda notata and 

 B. syndactyla, of which numbers — far more than I skinned — 

 were brought to me, caught in snares. But the result of 

 all these examinations was merely this : these species breed 

 at all seasons alike. Many adults are found not breeding, 

 however, shewing that these birds do not breed continually, 

 as some others seem to do. 



In the other species of Bleda, forming the genus 

 Phyllastrephus of the ' Vogel Afrikas,^ my record is not so 

 full, but it shews the same result, so far as it goes — 

 breeding-birds at all seasons. The like result is also obtained 

 \n Andropadus (including Eurillas), and here scores of birds 

 were examined in ten months of the year. Of Pycnonotus 

 gahonensis breeding-birds, or nests with eggs, are recorded 

 for every month except December, for which no birds, either 

 breeding or not, are recorded. 



The Sun-birds. — Of the Sun-birds in general, some indi- 

 viduals are found breeding, and some not breeding, at all 

 seasons. Of the species most fully recorded, Cyanomitra 

 obscura, there are breeding-birds for every month except 

 March, when no specimens seem to have been examined ; 

 while in October, the rainiest month, no birds had the sex- 

 organs much enlarged. Cinnyris chloropygia shews breeding- 

 birds in all the four seasons except the second (and greater) 

 rainy time. 



The Warblers. — Of the little Warblers of waste and 

 cultivated ground, Cisticola erythrops and Camaroptera 

 griseiviridis are most fully recorded. Each of these shews 

 breeding-birds at every season. So do the two species of 

 Burnesia and Hylia prasina, though the number is not 

 so great. 



Of the two species of Stiphrornis, of which many indi- 

 viduals were snared in the forest, the combined record shews 

 breeding-birds at all seasons, one filling up the gaps 

 of the other. 



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