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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
caught in a hole in a tree. The plumage differs from that 
of adults in that the light spots of the under parts are white. 
Both the breeding birds mentioned above were killed in 
January, and the young one in February. These are the 
driest months of the year. 
Dendromus nivosus. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 619; 1907, p. 443. 
Dendromus efulensis Chubb, Bull. B.O. C. xxi. p. 92; 
Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 20. 
Among a considerable number of these birds some have 
the backs as golden in tint as specimens from the Gold 
Coast. 
Three more nests, or rather breeding-holes, of this species 
have now been brought to me, in every case accompanied by 
the bird that had been caught in the hole ; only one of 
these birds was a female, two were males. These holes 
were all cavities in the globular pendant nests of termites, 
which are huge balls, earthy and heavy, of the size and 
shape of a football, constructed around the slender stems 
of certain shrubs and vines. The situation of these breed¬ 
ing-holes thus resembled that of the hole of the same species 
formerly described (‘ Ibis/ 1909, p. 20) ; but that was in a 
light and papery ants'’ (not termites') nest. The structure 
in which the hole of Agapornis pullaria was found (see notes 
on that bird, p. 496) was yet another kind of ants' ne>t. 
In each of the three more recent holes of this Wood¬ 
pecker were two eggs, pure white, with thin glossy shells, 
measuring—(1) 25x16 and 22 5x 16 mm.; (2) 21x16*5 
and 21 x 17*5 mm.; (3) 23 X 16 and 22 x 16*5 mm. 
The months in which these eggs were found were April, 
June, and December; those mentioned in the former paper 
were found in January. These months belong to the dry 
season, and to the less rainy of the two rainy seasons. 
Dendromus permistus. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 619 ; 1907, p. 443. 
No. 4071, a young bird with the feathers not quite grown, 
differs markedly from adults in the plumage of the head. 
