30 Mr. J. H. Gurney on additional Species of Birds 



the bill black at the tip ; inside of the mouth and tongue pale 

 yellow ; tarsi and feet slate colour. During the summer months 

 the beauty of the male is much enhanced by two long feathers 

 which grow from the tail, and are from ten to twelve inches in 

 length. 



These Flycatchers are by no means scarce in Natal ; they fre- 

 quent bushy land, and are found within a range of twenty miles 

 from the coast. Their note is harsh, with the exception of one 

 short warble which they frequently repeat, and which both male 

 and female have to an equal degree. Their food consists of flies, 

 gnats, and small beetles. Five or six of these pretty birds may 

 frequently be seen together, generally one or two males to four 

 or five females ; and pleasant it is to watch their graceful motions 

 when in pursuit of their food. 



159. TcHiTREA CYANOMELiENA (VieiU.). Fantail Paradise 

 Flycatcher. 



Iris very dark brown; bill slate colour; tarsi and feet slate 

 colour. In habits these Flycatchers are excessively active, inces- 

 santly hopping and flying from twig to twig amongst the under- 

 wood in search of small flies and beetles. When thus employed, 

 they frequently expand the tail to its fullest extent, sometimes 

 perpendicularly, then to one side or the other, and again down- 

 wards, which has a very pretty efi'ect. Their note is harsh, and 

 much resembles that of the Tchitrec Paradise Flycatcher. 



160. Phrynorhamphus capensis (Smith), Kaup, P. Z. S. 

 1851, p. 52. South African Broad-bill. 



Male. Eye large and full ; iris dark umber brown ; upper 

 mandible nearly black, under pale; tarsi and feet pale. The 

 stomach contained small beetles and a species of bug. These 

 birds frequent the dense bush, and are by no means plentiful ; 

 they have a curious, harsh, loud and monotonous note, which 

 almost exactly resembles that of Ephialtes capensis, and is uttered 

 at about the same intervals four or five times in a minute : "kroo,^' 

 with a good roll on the r, would describe the note tolerably well. 

 Each time the bird makes this noise (which is about two seconds 

 in duration), he flits round in a small circle about a couple of feet 



