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Mr. G. L. Bates— Field-Notes on the 
Dendromus efulensis. [Ngomoko.] 
Dendromus efulensis Chubb, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 92 
(May 1908). 
The food of these birds consists almost exclusively of the 
many small black ants that crawl on trees. One was found 
Text-fig. 3. 
Nest of Dendromus efulensis. 
to have used the ants in another and very peculiar way. 
These ants make large nests that look like great excrescences 
on the trunks of small trees, partly attached along the side 
and partly hanging, sometimes two feet or more in length. 
They are papery like a hornets* nest, though heavier and 
