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Birds of Southern Cameroon . 
Barbatula erythronota. [Omvek.] 
Reich. V. A. ii. p. 146. 
No. 3451. £ breeding. Bitye, R. Ja, Feb. 1909. 
No. 4360. S >> „ „ Aug. 1910. 
This is the most beautiful of the small Barbets and is not 
common, for the two specimens mentioned above are the 
only ones that I have procured. The first was brought alive, 
imprisoned in its nesting hole in a section of a small soft¬ 
wood stump. This hole was exactly like those of other 
small Barbets, and contained, besides the female bird, two 
nestlings. 
Barbatula leucol^ma. [Omvek.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 617; 1907, p. 44.2; Bates, Ibis, 
1909, p. 18. 
I have recently procured a number of these Barbets 
caught in their breeding-holes, which were like those already 
described (‘'Ibis/ 1909, p. 18) and are common in the tall 
stumps left in clearings. Such birds are not always actually 
breeding, though many of the holes contained eggs or 
nestlings. These are to be found during most months of 
the year, thus hardly confirming my first conclusion that 
the small Barbets prefer the dry seasons for breeding. 
The nestlings were generally two in number, but once 
three were found in one hole. They all had sharp-pointed 
tubercles on the back of the tarsal joint. 
When eggs were found, they generally numbered two ; 
in one instance three. These eggs vary in length from 
15 to 18 mm., and in width from 12 to 13 mm, ; otherwise 
they are as already described. 
Barbatula subsulphurea. [Omvek.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 617 ; 1907, p. 441 j Bates, Ibis, 
1909, p. 18. 
A few nesting-holes of this species have been found, and 
are exactly like those of B. leucolcema , being placed in similar 
situations. One contained two broken eggs when it reached 
me, and two young birds were found in each of the others. 
These had heel-pads, similar to those described above. 
