Birds of Soufhej'n Cameroon. 497 



Agapornis zenkeri. [Emole.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. G05 ; Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 89. 



Nos. 4282, 4285-6, 4289, 4290; all males with testes 

 much enlarged. The stomachs contained the little fig-like 

 fruits of the eidp tree. Irides yellow; feet greenish-grey; 

 bills slaty-black. 



The five specimens enumerated above were shot with bows 

 and arrows on three successive days, together with some 

 others that were damaged, in a certain cfop tree, a small kind 

 of fig, the bark of which formerly furnished the bark-cloth 

 of the people. The little Parrots had gathered to feed there, 

 along with the common s'pecies, A. pv/laria. It is curious 

 that there were no females among the birds that were killed, 

 as this Avas not the case with A . jmllaria. 



Acjapornis zenkeri seems to be found only where the two 

 species collect to feed in such wild fruit trees as that 

 mentioned. The name Kd-nkae, meaning " Grass-Parrot," 

 is not given to this species and would not be appropriate. 



CorytHjEola cristata. [Kundnk.] 



Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 91. 



Nos. 4098, 4387. Both S ■ Bitye, R. Ja. 



No. 4395. ? . Bitye, R. Ja; two empty sheaths of ova 

 in ovary and no third found. 



On the 19th of last August a man brought me an e^^ 

 that he said was that of a Kunduk — he saw the pair of birds 

 fly out of a low akak tree [Greivia) along a forest path. By 

 getting up on a stump he could bend down the twigs and 

 reach the nest. I kept the e^^, and a few days later had an 

 opportunity of verifying the man^s statement; for a female 

 bird, No. 4395 (see above), was brought in with bits of egg- 

 shell sticking to the feathers of its breast, where there were 

 shot-wounds, the bird having been killed by my hunter 

 Nkolo on its nest. These bits of shell were exactly like the 

 egg the man had brought, and both were so peculiar that 

 they must have belonged to the same species. Nkolo shot 

 this bird on its nest high up in a tree, and from the accounts 

 given by others the Kunduk seems usually to build high. 



