Birds (if Southern Kamerun. 13 
556. Glaucidium sjostedti. [Akung-minkan.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 427. 
I obtained a female specimen, which had been taken on its 
nest in a hollow tree in the forest, where it was sitting on 
one egg. The hole in the tree in which it had been caught 
was said to have been only about five feet from the ground. 
The time of year was August (dry season). The bird had 
been eating a wild mouse as well as beetles. The egg 
measured 34 x 28 mm. 
[The egg is of a wide perfect oval shape, almost devoid of 
gloss, and pure white.—-O.-G.] 
612. Turacus zenkeri. [Mba.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 435. 
This is the Touraco of the Ja, while T. meriani is that of 
Efulen and the coast. When I have been walking along 
the road going to Bitye, I have often carefully observed 
where I first saw T. zenkeri , for the two species can be 
distinguished at a distance, if seen plainly, by their crests. 
Along the road I always saw the coast-species, and I think 
that the domain of T. zenkeri must begin about Bitye, but I 
have never found T. meriani there. There seems to be a 
sharply defined boundary between them. 
A nest was found in August (dry season). It was in the 
thick top of a low tree in a bit of forest near the village, at 
the edge of a small stream. It was built of tiny dry twigs 
laid loosely together, so that it fell to pieces when taken in 
the hand. There were two eggs, both of which measured 
37 x 29 mm. 
[Two eggs of a perfect oval shape, devoid of gloss, and of 
a uniform creamy white.—O.-G.] 
615. Centropus monachus. [Du’u, or Esil.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 439. 
Female, with an egg in the oviduct, Bitye, July 30, 
1906. 
As has been said (‘Ibis,’ 1907, p. 439), this species is a 
characteristic bird of the second-growth trees and bushes 
