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Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 
260. Podica camerunensis. [Mveleku.] 
No. 2489. <$. Bitye, April 24, 1907. Testes large. 
Stomach (gizzard) containing bits of prawns. 
This is a very different-looking bird from any other that 
I have obtained and agrees exactly with the description of 
F. camerunensis. 
260 a. Podica jacobi Reich. (?). 
No. 2877. S • Bitye, Jan. 26, 1908. Testes rather large. 
No. 2991. ? . Bitye, March 23, 1908. 
Both these specimens are adult, as indicated by their 
breeding-organs. They agree with the description of 
P. senegalensis, except in having white throats and smaller 
measurements : the male, wing 190 mm., tail 135, culmen 40; 
the female, wing 171 mm., tail 140, culmen 37. They are just 
like the specimens of Podica that I have sent in former years, 
which have been named P. camerunensis , but incorrectly. 
I find in the ‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie 9 (1906, p. 325) the 
following note :—“ Dr. Reichenow exhibited a new Podica 
from Kamerun, which he named Podica jacobi , and which 
differs from P. senegalensis in the much smaller size, and 
apparently always retains the white throat, even in age. 
Length about 370, wing 157, tail 125, bill 35, tarsus 35 mm.” 
My specimens of Podica, of both species, have been shot 
by natives, who say that they find the bird swimming, but 
that, when frightened, it flies to the bushes or low branches 
along the bank, often, on first rising from the water, using 
both its wings and its feet as it skims along the surface. 
The stomachs are very muscular, and sometimes contain 
what appears to be mud and trash from the margins of 
streams. These birds are very ill-smelling and disagreeable 
to skin. 
313. Bubulcus ibis. 
Bubulcus lucidus Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 424. 
(J. Bitye, May 18, 3907. With long ornamental 
feathers on the crest, back, and breast. 
cf. Bitye, Nov. 11, 1907. Without the ornamental 
feathers. 
