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Birds of Southern Kamerun. 
1237. Dicrurus sharpii Oust. [Fa-Beti.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 355. 
This smaller Drongo I never found about Efulen. In my 
former note I said that “ perhaps it does not venture out 
into the depths of the forest, where D. atripennis is at home/'* 
A longer acquaintance inclines me to modify this only by 
striking out the word “ perhaps.” 
A specimen shot just after leaving its nest proved to be a 
sitting female. The nest was a neatly woven little cup, 
composed of fine rootlets and stems with some lichens stuck 
in, and attached or slung, hammock-fashion, to two twigs, 
hanging between them, with the rim on a level with the 
twigs. It was held together and to the twigs by gossamer 
threads. The nest was small for the size of the bird, 
measuring 55 mm. in width inside. There was one egg in it 
and no trace of another. It measured 24 X 15*5 mm. 
[One egg of a long, pointed oval form and almost devoid 
of gloss. The ground-colour is of a pinkish cream-colour, 
with a very faintly marked zone of indistinct lilac spots 
round the larger end.—O.-G.] 
Lamprocolius splendidus glaucovirens. [Kwangv] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 357. 
The Kwang (the name pronounced in a high explosive 
tone to imitate the ringing call of the bird) is found in all 
places where I have collected. It visits trees which bear the 
fruits that it eats, especially the “ aseng ” (Musanga smithii ), 
wherever they are found, but is more frequently seen in the 
opener country than in the forest. It perches high, and in 
this and in its brilliant dress and ringing cries exhibits a 
sort of proud, or martial, bearing. Besides its usual stirring 
call, it sometimes utters a loud but sweet piping note, like 
that of the American Red-winged Blackbird. When it flies 
it makes a rushing sound with the wings; and it does not 
do so only occasionally and voluntarily, but always. The 
Kwang are inclined to gather together in flocks to feed, and 
sometimes collect in large companies to go to roost. But 
I have seen such flocks seldom. I once had a notion that 
