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the statements of the natives. All my birds were scxed by 

 myself alone. In speaking of objects and conditions peculiar 

 to the African forest country^ it has often been difficult to 

 find suitable English "words, and it has been convenient to 

 borrow a few words here from Bulu, my language when in 

 Africa; they have mostly been nsed in 'The Ibis^ before. 

 (Pronounce the vowels as in French.) Jijak means a company 

 of birds in the forest (see ' Ibis,' 1905, p. 402); ekdiok, plural 

 bikotdk, means old cultivated or cleared land, now abandoned 

 and overgrown thickly with almost impenetrable bushes, 

 vines, tall sedges and grass, and small trees ; e'ngas means 

 the swampy border of a stream, overgrown with sedges and 

 weeds; vjak is the name of an ants' nest hanging in a tree, 

 and also of a suspended termites' (white ants') nest. Names 

 of trees and plants used are: — "aseng," Musanga smiikii ; 

 "aboe," Alcorneacordata; "atondok," i^arow^a sp.; "okong," 

 Triumfetta sp. ; ''esong," Pan/cum maximum. 



INIuch more is due to INIr. Ogilvie-Grant in this paper than 

 his brief descriptions of the eggs, and I am under great 

 obligations to him. I must also thank the officers and 

 attendants of the " Bird-room " in the Museum for much 

 courteous help. 



The arrangement followed is mostly that of Prof. Fieich- 

 enow's '' Yogel x\frikas." 



Plotus rufus. [Ntotoko.] 



Anhinga rufa Reichenow^, V. A. i. p. 95. 



No. 4322. c? (testes large). Bitye, July 1910. 



This specimen is the only one that I have seen, and it was 

 new to the boy who shot it and to the people of the village. 

 But a man from another village nearer the Ja knew the bird 

 and gave me the Bulu name for it ; so probably it is not 

 very rare on the Ja itself. The boy who shot my specimen 

 said that he saw it on a log over the small river near 

 Bitye, with its wings spread out, sunning itself. When shot 

 and wonnded it dived into the river out of sight and emerged 

 far awav. 



