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some large. One 'Ekolat' [Malaconotus gabonensis) had a 

 little frog almost whole. 



"The Thrushes and Warblers rarely had anything in their 

 stomachs but remains of insects. 



" The Flycatchers' stomachs never contained anything but 

 insects, often large and nearly whole. 



" The stomachs of the little Barbets (Gymnobucco calms and 

 G. pelt and Heliobucco bonapartii) often contained vegetable 

 substances, especially seeds of a fig-like fruit called ' Asen/ 



"The large Barbet 'Ekuku' (Trachyphonus purpuratus) 

 had what I took to be the gristly part of slugs. 



" The stomach of the Trogon (Hapaloderma) contained, 

 along with fragments of insects, some fibrous substance like 

 grass or moss. 



"The Wood-Hoopoe (Scoptelus) had remains of insects 

 in its stomach. 



" Only one of the Owls [Syrnium nuchale) had anything 

 but insects in the stomach, and that had the hair and bones 

 of a small rodent, together with beetles and grass. The 

 horned i Akun ' [Syrnium nuchale) had big black beetles, 

 such as are found in rotten logs. The horned ' Ndnk ' 

 (Huhua poensis) had nothing but a recently swallowed 

 Mantis. 



" The green Parrots [Pyocephalus aubryanus) were shot in 

 a tree, where they were feeding. These birds have so little 

 fear that they will return to the same tree again and 

 again, till all the flock is killed. They are seen here only 

 occasionally. 



" The sooty-black bird (Laniarius leucorhynchus) lives in 

 the thick tangled growth of old garden-clearings, hiding 

 when an intruder comes near and scolding with a noise as 

 loud as that of cats fighting. 



"The 'Ebondi' (Dicrurus atripennis), with outwardly 

 curled tail-feathers, lives in the dense forest. It utters 

 an agreeable call or short song. 



" Other birds, the notes of which I have learned to know 

 are: — The 'Ejakda' (Oriolus Icetior), which has a clear 

 whistling note, reminding one of the American ' Bob White/ 



