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Birds of Southern Cameroon . 
Burnesia bairdi. (Plate XII. figs. 11 & 12, eggs.) 
(Text-fig. 19, B.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 326. 
Prinia bairdi Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 69. 
Half a dozen nests of this species have been brought to 
me, each time with the sitting bird or with nestlings, since 
the two described already. They were placed in tangles of 
grass or bushes in the bikotoh, and one amongst some of the 
big sedge called “ akwae 93 on the bank of the river. The 
description already given applies to all, except that the 
materials vary. This bird does not sew leaves together for the 
exterior. In one nest three nestlings were brought alive ; 
when they opened their mouths the bright orange-colour 
and the black basal tongue-spots were very conspicuous. I 
fed these little birds with insects ; each time, after swallowing, 
the little creature would turn around and void excrement on 
the side of the nest towards me, and upwards, but not over 
the edge of the nest; the parent bird would have removed 
it. The nest was clean when it was brought. The tongue 
of one of these nestlings is that figured. 
Three is the usual number of eggs of a clutch in this 
species. A large number of eggs measure 16x12*5 mm.; 
none vary more than half a millimetre from this in width, 
but a few are longer, the limit in length being 18 mm. 
[The eggs of this species have been already described, and 
additional clutches resemble those already examined. They 
are of two very distinct types, either with clouded markings 
or with finely freckled markings of some shade of chestnut; 
the ground-colour varies from pale bluish-green in the 
former type to bright blue-green in the latter.—W. B. Q.-G.] 
Burnesia leucopogon. [Ose-minjombok.] (Plate XII. 
figs. 9 & 10, eggs). (Text-fig. 19, B.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 327. 
A dozen nests of this species have been found and 
identified in the usual way, in all seasons except the 
very dry one. These have an even closer resemblance 
to each other than nests of the same species of bird 
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