Birds of Southern Kamerun. 
sometimes, in the forest, the Ground-Dove ( Calopelia ) or 
the Forest-Francolin ( Francolinus lathami). Snares similarly 
set in the smaller second-growth forest often catch Cossyphi 
and Warblers, such as Burnesia, and occasionally other birds. 
When used in cassava-patches they catch the village Ground- 
Doves (Chalcopelia). Similar snares may be set in small 
trees, the bent stick being tied to a twig. By doing this in 
trees full of the fruits which the birds eat, certain species 
are more easily caught. One of the best trees for this is 
the “ A'bae,” a species of Alcornia. Many kinds of birds eat 
the catkin-shaped fruit of a big weed called “ mvomijaug,” 
which is really a kind of pepper ( Piper subpeltatum) , and 
little snares are often fixed on these weeds. Likewise snares 
set on a pepper-plant of another sort ( Capsicum ) catch 
many birds. Flowering shrubs, and especially that called 
“tya ? a” ( Leea , of the order Arnpelidese), attract many Sun- 
birds, which are caught in numbers by little snares fixed 
on the bunches of flowers. 
The general character of the country in Southern 
Kamerun could not be better described by me now than has 
been already done in f The Ibis ’ (1904, p. 592). I wish to 
emphasize again the distinctness, as regards their bird- 
population, of the primitive forest from the smaller tangled 
growth of trees, bushes, sedges, grass, and weeds which covers 
ground that has been cleared and cultivated in former years. 
Most birds belong strictly to one kind of country or the 
other, and are seldom or never seen out of the kind to which 
they belong. The region of the Ja is made up largely of 
the opener country, from which the primitive forest has been 
cleared. Hence the birds peculiar to this country are 
abundant there, and a number of species are found which do 
not occur in the more densely forested district of Efulen. 
Such are Pyromelana , Serinus , Colins, and the Kite, to name 
only a few. It is noticeable that these are birds which have 
a wide Ethiopian range. Those birds of the great forest 
nearer the coast that were not found in the Ja region, such 
as Pliasidus, Picathartes , and Geocichla, are mostly forms 
peculiar to the West-African forest. Not very far to the 
