Birds of-Southern Kamerun . 3 
have been especially useful in shooting birds sitting on their 
nests. 
The best way of obtaining certain kinds of birds has proved 
to be by snares. Native boys are always skilful at this 
Text-fig. 1. 
Natives with their crossbows and arrows. 
method, for they have been accustomed from infancy to catch 
little birds to eat. For birds brought to me thus caught I 
pay with fish-hooks, which I use as a kind of currency, 
taking them back again in exchange for larger articles at a 
certain rate. The way in which these snares are set bn the 
