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Birds of Southern Kamerun. 
No. 1999 was a sitting female, shot with bow and arrow 
on its nest. This fabric was a te poor excuse” for a nest— 
a mere pad of dry tendrils and weed-stalks mixed together, 
so small that the bird would completely cover and hide it. 
There was a little depression on the top, where the one egg 
had been laid. The egg reached me broken, along with a 
tiny nestling just emerged from the shell. 
[A broken egg, apparently of a rather blunt oval shape 
and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is pale yellowish- 
clay colour, rather densely spotted all over, especially round 
the larger end, where the under-markings form an irregular 
clouded zone, with small spots and dots of dull reddish-brown 
, and dark grey.—O.-G.] 
1136. Nicator vireo. [Ekong, or Ntyong.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 335. 
This smaller green Shrike, which I found only at the Ja, 
is not so shy as its larger relative, and its loud and pleasing 
song is very frequently heard. This song is one of the most 
striking sounds of the bird-world in that district. It may 
be likened to a bugle-call of half-a-dozen notes, mostly in 
one tone, but with one or two towards the end in a higher 
pitch, the last one or two dropping again to the pitch of the 
first. It may be heard at almost any time of the day. When 
singing the bird perches amongst the foliage of some tree, 
usually high and out of sight. 
Dryoscopus bocagii. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 331. 
Chlorophoneus bocagei Reich. V. A. ii. p. 557. 
It certainly seems fitting, from what I know of this bird 
in life, to have it placed in the same genus as D. senegalensis 
and D. tricolor. I became acquainted with the two latter 
(which I supposed were one, never suspecting that I had 
met with two species of these birds) at Efulen, and there 
learned to know their various calls, which I have since heard 
them (or one of them) make at Bitye, in the Ja region (see 
f The Ibis/ 1908, p. 333). At Bitye I shot several of D. bocagei 
at different times. I found them skulking in the foliage of 
