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Birds of Southern Kamerun . 
1944. Parmoptila woodhousii. (Plate II.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 323. 
Nos. 2130, 2130 a. Bitye, Jan. 4, 1907. Young, caught 
in the nest. The four small white wattles at the gape (see 
the upper figure in the Plate) were conspicuous. 
These birds are seen going about in little companies of half- 
a-dozen, both in the forests and in the bushes or open land. 
Their food is insects, largely small ants. The four specimens 
Nos. 1784-7 were killed at one shot while engaged in picking 
from a bush the small ants that were swarming over it. 
In my note already published in 4 The Ibis ^ (1908, 
p. 324), I refer to the large dome-shaped nests of these 
small birds. I have seen more of these nests since, and 
there is now no doubt about their belonging to this species. 
The four immature specimens Nos. 1356-9 were caught in 
such a nest. Another nest, shown me in a better state of 
preservation, was a rough mass as big as a half-gallon 
measure, composed of fine dry grass, with a quantity of green 
moss thrown loosely over the outside. It was placed on 
a forked twig which was growing out horizontally. The 
entrance was at one side and had a sort of portico 
covering. An egg, taken from a nest in which were also 
two young birds, measured 14*5 X 105 mm. 
[The egg is of a distinctly pointed oval shape, devoid of 
gloss and pure white.—O.-G.] 
2002. Cisticola erythrops. [Abankwat, or Tinkwat.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 317. 
This lively and bold little bird has already been charac¬ 
terized in my brief note in 4 The Ibis ’ (/. s. c.). Its little 
song was spoken of, and also its sharp-toned notes, which 
are imitated in the name Abankwat/’ the last syllable 
being brought out with an emphasis almost like the crack 
of a whip. When these notes are abbreviated at the 
beginning, they resemble the shorter name “ Tinkwat 
Still another call often uttered by this Grass-Warbler 
remains to be described. It is merely a long-continued 
and rapid repetition of one sharp note. The bird, sitting 
