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Birds of Southern Kamerun. 
The two young birds Nos. 1555 and 1555 a, which are 
entered under Alseonax epulatus in ‘The Ibis'* (1907, p. 445), 
had been taken in an old Weaver's nest, and must have 
been the young of the present species. Alseonax does not 
build in such places. If they had belonged, to Alseonax they 
would surely have shown rufous spots. 
Smithornis camerunensis. [Nom-Kup-Mef an, or Mba- 
mezok.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 451. 
This note is additional to the former (‘Ibis/ 1907, p. 451). 
I wish I could say now whether the peculiar rattling noise 
made by these birds is produced “mechanically," by which 
I mean in some other way than by the voice, or not. But 
I know no more than I did, except that I have many times 
watched these birds making it, as one can do by patiently 
and carefully creeping up into the thicket where the noise 
is heard; and I have always observed that the sound begins 
and ends with the little circuit-flight from the twig, and is 
never heard when the bird is not flying, and that on the 
short circuit-flight the wings seem to be moved much more 
rapidly than is necessary for the distance of a few feet. 
The nest has been described, though it should not have 
been called “little," and the long streamers from it were 
not mentioned. Others have since been found, and in two 
of them the sitting birds were caught—both females and 
each with two eggs under her. The two of these eggs which 
were whole, one from each nest, measured 23 X 15’5 mm. 
and 24-5 X 16 mm. 
[Three eggs are of a rather long and pointed oval form, 
distinctly glossy and pure white.—0.-0.] 
Smithornis zenkeri Reich. [Mbamezok.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 452 ; Reich. Y. A. ii. p. 724. 
No. 2942. ? . Bitye, R. Ja, March 9, 1908. Abdomen 
and breeding-organs indicating a sitting bird. 
This specimen is here recorded because it was shot just 
after leaving its nest, and the nest and eggs were brought to 
