Birds (if Southern Cameroon. 499 



measures 3i"5x32 mm.; two eggs brought with another 

 bird measure 37 x 34 aiul 36 x 34 mm. Thus all these effgs 

 were nearly spherieal. 



One sitting Mba brought with eggs i)roved to be a male, 

 and was shot at midday ; the other, a female, was shot at 

 evening. Another male Mba^ shot on tlie nest about noon, 

 was brought in along with a broken egg. 



COCCVSTES JACOBIXUS. 



Reichenow, V. A. ii. p. 78. 



No. 4537. S (testes small). Bitye, Dec. 16, 1910. 



This is the first specimen that I have obtained. It was shot 

 on a papaw near my house, where it perched without fear. 

 It had the appearance of a sick or starved bird ; its stomach 

 was full of a very common kind of grasshopper, which, from 

 their disagreeable smell (and taste, too, I presume), no bird 

 of the country wall touch. 



COCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 



Reichenow, Y. A. ii. p. 81. 



No. 4559. c? (testes very small). Bitye, Jan. 2, 1911. 



Curiously enough, an example of a second species of 

 Coccystes, a straggler in the country, was shot a couple of 

 weeks after the specimen of C. jacobinus mentioned above, 

 and in the same way. It was seen boldly sitting on a palm- 

 frond not far from my house. Its stomach was full of the 

 same disagrecaV)]e kind of grasshoppers as the other, though 

 No. 4559 had not been reduced to such food by starvation, 

 for it was fat. Perhaps these stranger birds are unable to 

 compete with the regular inhabitants of the chase as regardii 

 tempting food. 



Pachycoccyx validus. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 435. 



No. 4220. S imm. Bitye, R. Ja, June 18, 1910. Iris 

 dark brown ; bill black above, light beneath ; eyelids and 

 feet yellow. 



This is the second specimen of this rare species that has 

 been brought to me ; like the first, it had been killed in 

 the forest by a native. In both cases I have recorded the 

 contents of the stomach ; these consisted of insects of many 



