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Birds of Southern Kamerun. 
to he making such a clamour as to drown the sound of 
people crashing through the underbrush beneath him, till 
he was shot. 
No. 2618 was shot by my hoys while in the act of 
plastering up the hole in a tree where its mate probably was. 
There was clay on its bill and on its helmet, about the tip and 
sides. The hoys said that they heard the cries of the female 
inside the hole. I went next day to see the place and tried 
to get a man to climb the tree, but nothing vrould induce 
him to try it. The tree was large and tall, and stood apart 
from others, and was really unclimbable. The hole was so 
high up, and so hidden by a limb and by parasitic ferns, 
that it was invisible. Little bits of clay were strewn on the 
ground at the foot of the tree. While I was there a pair of 
these Hornbills, a male and a female, came flying round the 
place. Was one the female that was being enclosed the day 
before, which had got another mate? This male perched 
on the limb where the hole was, which was nearly upright, 
in the position of a Woodpecker, supported by its tail. 
A favourite food of this and other Hornbills is the fruit 
of the Calamus palm. 
813. Lophoceros fasciatus. [Okwokwad.] 
Leich. Y. A. ii. p. 248. 
This is the commonest of the smaller Hornbills. Indi¬ 
viduals of this species are often seen in small parties, in the 
trees left standing in the clearings and in the second-growth 
forest, where their querulous, disagreeable cries are often 
heard. Their vrhole appearance and manner are unpleasant. 
Their flight is slouching and uncertain, and they seem 
scarcely able to manage their long wings and tails properly. 
A favourite food with them is caterpillars, especially the 
large kinds, which the natives also eat, and the birds gather 
around trees that are infested by them. 
843. Halcyon radius. [Akwae.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 429. 
While the more typical small Kingfishers of this country 
live and breed along the streams, those of the genus halcyon 
