Birds of Southern Cameroon. 535 



(see above, niuler T. rufo-cinerea) , and there uas a distinct 

 wattle below the eye, not seen in the others. 



C'AMPOPHAGA QUISCALINA. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 632 ; 1907, p. 457. 



Nos. 3834, 3835. S ? acl. Bitye, Au-,r. 1909. 



13oih these adult birds had the inside of tlie mouth bright 

 orange_, the iris dark brown, the bill and feet black, though the 

 feet of the female were rather of a dark slaty horn-colour. 

 It is remarkable that the female is somewhat larger than the 

 male, with a longer bill ; the difference in size appeared even 

 in the bodies after skinning. 



A specimen of a yonng Campophaga (No. 3375, (^ , 

 Efayong, R. Ja, Jan. 1909) has barred plumage like the 

 young and females of C. nigra, and can scarcely belong to 

 the same species as the adult specimens. 



LoBOTus oRioLiNus. (Plate VIII.) 



Lobotus oriolinus Bates, Bull. B. 0. C. vol. xxv. p. 14. 



No. 3181, (J ; 3202, ?. (Types of the species.) Assobam, 

 South-Eastern Cameroon, Dec. 1908. 



No. 3154, ? ; 3153, c^ . Assobam, South-Eastern Cameroon, 

 Dec. 1908. 



No. 3142. S • Efayong, R. Ja (halfway between Bitye and 

 Assobam), Nov. 1908. 



These specimens Avere shot on my trip to the eastern side 

 of the colony, November 1908 to January 1909. All were 

 adult birds with more or less enlarged breeding-organs, and 

 some were moulting. The food found in their stomachs was 

 generally caterpillars, but sometimes grasshoppers or other 

 insects. They were inactive birds, and never seen in flight, 

 but always perched, silent and solitary, among the leaves of 

 small trees. Their resemblance in colour to Oriolus Icelior is 

 such that neither my boys nor I, if we could not see the bill, 

 could distinguish them when seen in a tree. 



SiGMODUS RUFIVENTRIS. 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 328; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 33. 

 Nos. 3719 and 3731 were immature ; thev differ from 



