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Birds of Southern Cameroon. 
Criniger calurus. (Plate XI. fig. 3, egg.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 632; 1907, p. 458; Bates, Ibis, 
1905, p. 96. 
This is one of the few strictly forest-birds of which the 
nest has been found. A sitting female (No. 3916) was 
brought alive, having been caught “ on the nest ” (birds 
of this species are never caught in snares). The nest 
was brought along with the branch of a forest-shrub on 
which it had been placed, among the long close-growing 
leaf-petioles. It was composed of small dry twigs, with 
a quantity of damp moss laid on them and a cup of fine 
blackish fibres inside. The interior of the nest was almost 
black, and there was an evident correspondence in colour 
between it and the dark eggs. The eggs (Nos. 343, 344) 
measure 23 x 16 and 22*5 x 16 mm. 
[They are pyriform in shape and distinctly glossy. They 
ground-colour appears to be pinkish, but is almost entirely 
obscured by the dense chocolate brown markings forming a 
nearly uniform surface.—W. R. O.-Gf.] 
Bleda notata. [Olo-ejak.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. 635 ; 1907, p. 461 ; Bates, Ibis, 
1905, p. 97. 
The colour of the iris varies in different specimens, corre¬ 
sponding only partially to difference of sex. All females 
seem to have the iris brown, but some males have it brown 
and some yellow, and those with brown irides include adult 
birds, with large breeding-organs, though perhaps they are 
rather young. In all specimens the bill is black above and 
light bluish-grey beneath, and the feet are light bluish- 
grey. 
Bleda syndactyla. [Nti-ejak.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 633; 1907, p. 459, 
Iris brown ; bill black above, pale grey beneath; bare 
skin about the eye pale bluish-grey; feet pale grey. 
A young bird (No. 3728), with the plumage nearly grown, 
had the under part of the bill, the skin about the eye, and 
ser. ix.— vol. v. 2 s 
