Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
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He also brought the nest, a mere cushion of dry leaf-petioles, 
said to have been found at the bottom of the hollow in the 
tree, and three eggs. These eggs contained large embryos, 
and only one could be saved ; it is No. 595, fig. 7 on the 
Plate. All three eggs were measured, and found to be 30, 
29*5, and 29 mm. long respectively, and to have equal width, 
21*5 mm. Thus they were much smaller than the eggs de¬ 
scribed before ( e Ibis/ 1909, p. 38), but otherwise resembled 
them. Fig. 11 in the Plate is taken from No. 110, collected 
previously. 
Malimbus nitens. [Nga’a-minkan.] (Plate IX. fig. 11, 
egg-) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p, 352 ; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 39. 
In my previous notes I described nests of this species 
found in the Efiilen district on overhanging branches of 
trees over the streams. In the Ja River district small streams 
are usually bordered by swampy ground thickly covered with 
the Rapliia palm, and nests of Malimbus nitens are found 
hanging to the tips of its fronds. Here the material is not 
rootlets and the like, but shreds torn from the palm-leaves. 
One such nest contained two nestlings nearly fledged. 
Nos. 4238 aud 4239. These have red on the crops as in the 
adult, and one has also a few red feathers on the crown, 
though the adult has no red on that part. A still younger 
nestling, No. 3706, is almost entirely black, but shews a 
little dull red colour on the chest. 
Another nest, in which the sitting f< male was caught, 
contained tv\o eggs (Nos. 639 and 640). These are like those 
briefly described in a former note (Ibis, 1908, p. 352) ; 
both measure 24 x 16 mm. 
[The eggs are of a long oval form and almost devoid of 
gloss. They have a yellowish stone ground-colour, with 
minute dots and spots, and large blotches of vandyke-brown 
and greyish-lilac.—O.-G.]. 
Malimbus coronates. [Nga’a-minkan.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 352; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 41. 
Nos. 3007, 3575, 3938,3953, 4010, 4205,4242. All $ adult. 
