from Efulen in Camaroon. 595 



water-parting is in a level district. The hilly country has 

 been all passed on the upward slope. " 



<f The hills are nowhere high enough to deserve the name 

 of mountains, never reaching a height, I should think, of 

 one thousand feet above the valleys • they are completely 

 covered by forest, except for a few bare cliffs. He who 

 climbs a hill for a view of the country is disappointed, as he 

 can find no opening through which to see out. Along the 

 sides of the hills, under the trees, are many large scattered 

 rocks, with holes and small caves among and under them, 

 where porcupines hide, bats hang, and Swallows and Bare- 

 headed Crows [Picathartes) make their nests of mud." 



" This country is full of streams and has an abundant 

 rainfall. Most of the rain falls in the months nearest the two 

 equinoxes — that is, in the spring and autumn of temperate 

 climates. The months of our summer and winter are the dry 

 seasons near the equator. Thus each year has two parts, 

 consisting of a wet and a dry season. Two crops are raised in 

 the native gardens, each planted in a wet and harvested in a 

 dry season. The rainy season, being that when the sun comes 

 directly overhead, is also that of the hottest sunshine. In 

 the dry season much of the weather is cloudy and misty/' 



" Contrary to what one might expect, the climate here is 

 not extremely hot. This may be due to the cooling effect 

 of the vast amount of green foliage. The heat of the sun- 

 shine is often intense, but the shade of the forest is always 

 comfortably cool, and the year contains probably more 

 cloudy or misty than sunny days." 



In this paper I have added to the list the specimens sent 

 by Mr. Bates since my last essay on his collections was 

 issued, and I have referred to the following two papers on 

 the birds of the Camaroon : — 



Sjostedt, Yngve. — "Zur Ornithologie Kameruns nebst 

 einigen Angaben iiber die Siiugethiere des Landes." 

 K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxvii. p. 1. 



Reichenow, A. — "Zur Vogelfauna von Kamerun." 

 J. f. O. 1894, p. 29. 



