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Birds of Southern Cameroon . 
measures 34*5x32 mm.; two eggs brought with another 
bird measure 37 x 34 and 36 x 34 mm. Thus all these eggs 
were nearly spherical. 
One sitting Mba brought with eggs proved to be a male, 
and was shot at midday; the other, a female, was shot at 
evening. Another male Mba, shot on the nest about noon, 
was brought in along with a broken egg. 
CoCCYSTES JACOBINUS. 
Reichenow, V. A. ii. p. 78. 
No. 4537. S (testes small). Bitye, Dec. 16, 1910. 
This is the first specimen that I have obtained. It was shot 
on a papaw near my house, where it perched without fear. 
It had the appearance of a sick or starved bird; its stomach 
was full of a very common kind of grasshopper, which, from 
their disagreeable smell (and taste, too, 1 presume), no bird 
of the country will touch. 
CoCCYSTES GLANDARIUS. 
Reichenow, V. A. ii. p. 8L 
No. 4559. S (testes very small). Bitye, Jan. 2, 1911. 
Curiously enough, an example of a second species of 
Coccystes, a straggler in the country, was shot a couple of 
weeks after the specimen of C. jacobinus mentioned above, 
and in the same way. It was seen boldly sitting on a palm- 
frond not far from my house. Its stomach was full of the 
same disagreeable kind of grasshoppers as the other, though 
No. 4559 had not been reduced to such food by starvation, 
for it was fat. Perhaps these stranger birds are unable to 
compete with the regular inhabitants of the chase as regards 
tempting food. 
Pachycoccyx validus. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 435. 
No. 4220. S imm. Bitye, R. Ja, June 18, 1910. Iris 
dark brown ; bill black above, light beneath; eyelids and 
feet yellow. 
This is the second specimen of this rare species that has 
been brought to me ; like the first, it had been killed in 
the forest by a native. In both cases I have recorded the 
contents of the stomach ; these consisted of insects of many 
