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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
Agapornis zenkeri. [Emole.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 605 ; Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 89. 
Nos. 4282, 4285-6, 4289, 4290; all males with testes 
much enlarged. The stomachs contained the little fig-like 
fruits of the etop tree. Irides yellow; feet greenish-grey; 
bills slaty-black. 
The five specimens enumerated above were shot with bows 
and arrows on three successive days, together with some 
others that were damaged, in a certain etop tree, a small kind 
of fig, the bark of which formerly furnished the bark-cloth 
of the people. The little Parrots had gathered to feed there, 
along with the common species, A. pullaria. It is curious 
that there were no females among the birds that were killed, 
as this was not the case with A . pullaria. 
Agapornis zenkeri seems to be found only where the two 
species collect to feed in such wild fruit trees as that 
mentioned. The name Ko-nkae, meaning u Grass-Parrot/’ 
is not given to this species and would, not be appropriate. 
CoRYTHiEOLA CRISTATA. [Kunduk.] 
Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 91. 
Nos. 4098,4387. Both $ . Bitye, R. Ja. 
No. 4395. ? . Bitye, It. Ja; two empty sheaths of ova 
in ovary and no third found. 
On the 19th of last August a man brought me an egg 
that he said was that of a Kunduk—he saw the pair of birds 
fly out of a low akak tree ( Grewia ) along a forest path. By 
getting up on a stump he could bend down the twigs and 
reach the nest. I kept the egg, and a few days later had an 
opportunity of verifying the man’s statement; for a female 
bird, No. 4395 (see above), was brought in with bits of egg¬ 
shell sticking to the feathers of its breast, where there were 
shot-wounds, the bird having been killed by my hunter 
Nkolo on its nest. These bits of shell were exactly like the 
egg the man had brought, and both were so peculiar that 
they must have belonged to the same species. Nkolo shot 
this bird on its nest high up in a tree, and from the accounts 
given by others the Kunduk seems usually to build high. 
