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lieshergen species both in winter and summer; it breerls, as 

 also do the two preceding sjDecies, amongst the bushes in 

 suital)le localities. 



365. Terpsiphone perspicillata (Swains.). Tchitrec 

 Flycatcber. 



This species is sparsely scattered throughout the Maga- 

 liesbergen, freqnenting well-wooded ravines and valleys ; it 

 disappears during our winter months, returning somewhat 

 late in the spring ; it is restless in its habits, shy, and ditfi- 

 cult to shoot. The cock birds frequently utter a short but 

 somewhat sweet little song. There is much individual vari- 

 ation in the length of the tail. 



MusciCAPA GRisoLA, Liuu. Spotted Flycatcher. 



This species is a regular visitor during our summer, and, 

 I think, is then universal in Transvaal wherever there is 

 bush, but never plentiful, and always either solitary or in 

 pairs. 



HiRUNDo SEMIRUFA, Suud. Rufous-breastcd Swallow. 



This very fine Swallow is mucij more plentiful in the 

 warmer Rustenburg district than in the open and colder 

 country round Potchefstroom. Last year a pair built in au 

 old brick- kiln on the outskirts of the village of llustenburg ; 

 the nest much resembled that of H. cucidluta. 



HiRUNDO Di MIDI ATA, Suud. Pearly-brcastcd Swallow. 



One gusty evening in March 1882 a good many of these 

 little Swallows flew wildly past in the gloaming, apparently 

 in a great hurry. 



[These were perhaps arriving in Transvaal for the southern 

 winter (see Mr. Ayres's note in 'The Ibis,' 1879, p. 291). 

 The specimens which I have received from Transvaal were 

 ol)tained in May, July, August, and October, which scarcely 

 accords with the experience of the late Mr. Andersson, who, 

 in his Damara-Land notes, p. 52, speaks of having seen them 

 on the Okavango river ''as eaily as the 1st of September," 

 of their arrival in Damara Land " about November," and 

 of their nesting in that country in December. This dif- 



