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as thirty or forty fluttering about and inserting their long 

 beaks into the scarlet blossoms of the Kaffir boom-tree, visit- 

 ing first one flower and then another. 



52. Nectarinia amethystina. 



Shot one or two near Rustenberg, and observed it more 

 than once during my journey through the bush between Pot- 

 chefstroom and Rustenberg. I also saw a few in the bush 

 near Pretoria, and I have killed it in British KafFraria, near 

 East London, in company with N. chalybea ; it is, however, 

 much more shy in its habits than the latter bird. 



53. BUTALIS undulata. 

 From Macamac. 



54. POGONOCICHLA STELLATA. 



Common at Macamac Gold-fields. I did not observe them 

 near Rustenberg. 



55. LlOPTILUS NIGRICAPILLUS. 



From near Lydenburg and Pilgrim's Rest Gold-fields. 



56. Batis capensis. 



From Macamac. Procured on the stony coppices on the 

 sides of the hills, where I observed them flitting about among 

 the stunted brushwood. 



57. Terpsiphone viridis. 



I shot one of these birds near the town of Rustenberg ; and 

 I found them also near the waterfall under the mountain, and 

 by the side of an old stone wall. I have also seen them in 

 the bush near Pretoria. 



58. HiRUNDO RUSTICA. 



I brought home two specimens killed in the neighbourhood 

 of Potchefstroom. One is a male, apparently adult, but not 

 quite in full plumage, not having the long outer tail-feathers. 

 The other is in the curious young plumage, which, it appears, 

 the Common Swallow assumes only during its sojourn in 

 South Africa : the head is brown, with no trace of a frontal 

 patch ; and the throat is white. These Swallows appear every 

 year in the district of Potchefstroom during our summer 

 months. 



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