422 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
is said not to fly. It lives in the grassy places about villages, 
not in the forest. Dr. Weber, one of the missionaries at 
Ebolewo’o, tells me that these birds are often caught by 
school-boys in the thick tangle of sweet-potato vines that 
covers the mission premises. He has often heard their cry, 
uttered in the daytime, and describes it as a short whistling 
note, several times repeated. 
I have not obtained this bird in the region of the Ja. 
But once, while resting by the path some twenty or twenty- 
five miles west of my station near the Ja, I saw one run across 
from the thicket on one side of the path to that on the other, 
as quickly and stealthily as a wild rat, which I at first took 
it to be.—G. L. B. | 
71. LimMNocorax NIGER. 
Limnocorax niger (Gm.); Reichenow, Voég. Afrikas, 1. 
p- 279 (1900). 
No. 1831. gad. River Ja, July 7, 1906. Testes rather 
large. 
72, PopicaA CAMERUNENSIS. 
Podica camerunensis Sjést.; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, i. 
p. 800 (1900) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 96. 
No. 1478. ¢ juv. River Ja, Feb. 27, 1906. 
This specimen has the chin and throat, as well as the 
middle of the breast and abdomen, white, the sides of the 
body and under tail-coverts being barred with brown and 
white ; the lower throat and fore-neck are also mottled with 
brown bars. 
No. 1992. @ ad. Bitye, Ja River, Oct. 24, 1905. An 
ege was found in the oviduct. 
This specimen agrees with the foregoing in plumage and 
markings. 
73. JEGIALITIS HIATICOLA. 
Atgialitis hiaticola (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
Xxiv. p. 256 (1896). 
Charadrius hiaticula Reichenow, Vég. Afrikas, 1. p. 174 
(1900). 
No. 1975. g hiem. Bitye, River Ja, Oct. 15, 1906. 
