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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
Melichneust.es robustus. 
Melignomon robustus Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxv. p. 26 
(1909). 
The type specimen is the only example I have seen of this 
new Honey-Guide. But another species has been described 
by Beichenow (Orn. Monatsb. 1910, p. 160), which seems to 
resemble mine except in colour, and has been made the type 
of a new genus, Melichneustes , distinguished by the form 
of the tail, which I pointed out (Bull. B. O. C. 1. c.). This 
last species, M. sommerfeldi, was found in the region of 
the Dume Biver, not very far distant, to the north-east, 
from where I have collected. It is remarkable how many 
new forms of Indicatoridae, rare and retiring forest-birds, 
West Africa has yielded. 
My specimen of M. robustus was shot with bow and arrow. 
It had in the stomach small flakes of wax, and, like other 
Honey-Guides, had a very tough skin. 
Lybius bidentatus. [Ekuku.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 616; 1905, p. 466. 
Nos. 4381 and 4382 (<?&?) were a pair caught, with four 
young, in their hole in the tall dead stump of an aseng tree 
with dry corky wood. The hole was at about a man’s height 
above the ground. The entrance had been about two inches 
in diameter (it had been chopped larger when I saw it, to 
admit the man’s hand in removing the birds) ; and the 
excavation ran down a foot and a half. At the bottom there 
were a number of decomposing portions of insects which 
had passed through the bodies of the birds and had an ex¬ 
tremely offensive smell. The birds had been stopped up in 
their hole by a man who saw them both enter, about 8 or 
9 o’clock in the morning. The food found in the stomachs 
of the nestlings consisted of insects, part of a large Cetonid 
beetle being among them. The adults of this species feed 
mainly on fruits. The eyes of the nestlings were very small. 
Both these nestlings, and some nearly full-grown young 
birds obtained at another time, had a heel-pad of sharp- 
pointed tubercles. 
