THE IBIS. 
NINTH SERIES. 
No. IX. JANUARY 1909. 
L— Field-Notes on the Birds of Southern Kamerun, West 
Africa . By G. L. Bates, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Plates I. & II. and Text-figures 1-3.) 
These notes form a supplement to the series of papers on 
my birds by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, who has given to my 
collections much of their value by his account of them. 
They would have fitted in well with his papers, but it was 
impossible to publish them in that way, not only because 
they were not prepared in time, but also because many of 
the facts now given were not ascertained till long after I had 
sent home the specimens of the birds referred to. The 
information here given has been gathered slowly, during 
a number of years. Some of the notes have already been 
published with Dr. Sharpe's papers in ‘The Ibis' (1904, 
pp. 89, 592 • 1905, pp. 89, 462 ; 1907, p. 416; 1908, pp. 117, 
317). Hence a complete account can be obtained only by 
referring to them. To some groups of birds, such as t\k 
Accipitres, I have added very little here. 
I collected from 1901 till 1904 at and about Efulen, l 
made three short trips to the Ja River in the latter part of 
that period. After a journey home, in 1904-1905, I again 
returned to Africa, and collected at Efulen in the latter year 
till September, when I made a trip much farther towards 
the interior than I had gone before, into the Njiem or Zima 
SER. IX.—VOL. III. 
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