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14,2. Chrysococcyx klaasi. Fairly common. A white egg 

 of either this species or C. cupreus was found in the nest of 

 Camaropteru tinda in June. 



143. Chrysococcyx cupreus. Very common. Lays in 

 March, April, and May. I have never seen the young being 

 fed by foster-parents. A female shot in May dropped a light 

 blue unspotted egg on being handled, which unfortunately 

 broke. 



144. Melanobucco sequatorialis. Not often seen. 



145. Tricliolaema ansorgii. Common throughout the 

 forest. When wild fig and other fruit-trees are bearing, 

 these birds are to be found in numbers. 



14G. Heliohucco honapartii. Only seen once — a male in 

 breeding condition in February. 



147. Barbatula duchaillui. A pair of these birds reared 

 a family in a hole some twelve feet from the ground in the 

 middle of forest in February. By no means common. 



148. Barbatula scolopacea. Very common, breeds in May. 



149. Barbatula subsulphurea. Not uncommon. A nest 

 with one white egg partially incubated was found at the end 

 of May, about ten feet from the ground, in a small hole 

 at the end of a rotten branch. The hole was only about 

 two inches deep. 



150. Barbatula leucolsema. Not common. 



151. Deudropicus pcecilolsemus. The only Woodpecker 

 noticed in this locality. Fairly common. Birds in breeding 

 condition were obtained in March and May. 



152. Vinago calva. This bird quite realises its extra- 

 ordinary protective colouring, and acts up to it by remaining 

 absolutely still in a tree when danger threatens, and is then 

 almost impossible to see from below. It builds in May and 

 again in September, usually in quite a conspicuous position. 



