from the Camaroon Country. 417 
and wing-coverts have a subterminal black bar on the inner 
web instead of chestnut, the inner secondaries being ex- 
ternally chestnut. The throat and abdomen are white, the 
fore-neck and chest ashy brown, having spear-shaped white 
centres with black margins. 
The adult female differs from the male chiefly in the colour 
of the under surface, which is mostly white, the feathers being 
margined with black and mottled with brown edges. The 
upper surface is light brown vermiculated with dusky brown, 
blotched with black spots and more or less concealed sandy- 
buff bars on the scapulars and wing-coverts, The crown, 
too, in the female is brown instead of ashy. 
[Heard in the Zima Country, but not seen. 
The “ Obem” is found in every part of the country 
where I have been, but it is as strictly confined to the forest 
as the “ Okwal” is to clearings. I have sometimes caught 
glimpses of the “ Obem,” a few together, running on the 
ground beneath the undergrowth of the forest. A cackling 
sound, not so loud as the Okwal’s but shriller, heard in the 
forest, has been stated by natives to be made by the Obem. 
The food found in the stomachs of specimens examined 
consisted usually of insects. All of my specimens have been 
caught with snares baited with termites. Two chicks were 
once heard cheeping near a forest-path, and caught. They 
were little fluffy things with two parallel stripes on head and 
back. The mother, in the undergrowth near by, made a 
clucking or purring noise to call them. The people with me 
set snares, with the little chicks tied near them, and caught 
the mother. 
The chicks mentioned were found in June. Eggs have 
been found in May and in March. A female caught on the 
last day of December had small eggs in the ovary. A young 
bird, two-thirds grown, was caught about the same time. 
Only two eggs were taken in a clutch, and the people say 
that they never find more. They are of a uniform light 
brown colour, somewhat pointed in shape, and measure 38 
or 389 mm. X 27 or 28 mm.—G. L. B.] 
