from the Camaroon Country. 421 
67. Himanropus HAMATOPUS. 
Himantornis hematopus Hartl.; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 94. 
No. 2036. 2? ad. Bitye, River Ja, Nov. 2, 1906. 
[This forest-bird has been seldom obtained, and has never 
been seen alive, by me, but I have heard it, or heard of it, in 
every locality where I have remained long. A very charac- 
teristic sound of the forest at night and early morning, coming 
always from the direction of a stream of water, is universally 
attributed by the natives to the “ Nkulengu,” the name of 
this bird in Fang and Bulu., The native name is in imitation 
of this sound, the accent being placed on the last syllable. 
This call, which is loud and repeated with mechanical 
regularity, suggests the noise of an old pump worked by a 
windmill. 
Two eggs, brought to me by a native, are believed to be 
those of this bird, because the perfectly black down on the 
fully-formed chicks found in them indicated a bird of the 
Rail kind, and the eggs were too large for any other 
member of this family that I know. They were said to have 
been taken from a nest among the upturned roots of an up- 
rooted tree over the bank of a stream. They were of a 
dirty cream-colour, with spots and blotches of brown and 
grey ; they measured 43 x 33 mm.—G. L. B. | 
68. CANIRALLUS BATESI. 
Canirallus batesi Sharpe; id. Ibis, 1904, p. 95. 
No. 1866. 9? juv. River Ja, July 27, 1906. 
69, SAROTHRURA REICHENOVI. 
Corethrura reichenovi Sharpe, Cat. B. xxiii. p. 121 (1894). 
Sarothrura reichenovi Sharpe, Hand-]. B. i. p. 103 (1899). 
No. 983. gad. Efulen, July 27, 1905. Testes rather 
small. 
70. SAROTHRURA BONAPARTII. 
Sarothrura bonapartei Bp. ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i p. 290 
(1900) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 99. 
[This curious little Rail is sometimes caught on the ground 
by boys, who surround it where it hides under the grass, It 
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