232 Mr. Guy A. K. Marsliall on 



139. CoccYSTEs CAFER. (Levaillaiit's Cuckoo.) 



Oul}^ one example lias come under my notice, and this I 

 shot close to Salisbury, in December 1898. The stomach 

 contained hairy caterpillars. 



140. CucuLUs GULARis. (Soutli- African Cuckoo.) 

 Although Mr. Ayres records this species as plentiful on 



the Umfuli, I did not observe it there in the spring of 1895, 

 and an immature bird shot near Salisbury in November last 

 is the only one I have seen. This example differs from the 

 adult in having the nostrils black, all the feathers of the 

 head and back broadly barred at their tips with greyish or 

 huffish white, and the sides of the face and the entire throat 

 barred like the abdomen, except that the bars are decidedly 

 closer ; it also has a large nape-spot composed of pure white 

 feathers, which may perhaps be merely a "sport." The 

 colours of the soft parts are : — upper mandible, including 

 nostrils, blackish ; lower mandible blackish at tip, the base 

 and also the palate salmon-red ; iris brown ; feet pale 

 yellow. The stomach contained caterpillars and beetles. 



141. CucuLus cANORus. (European Cuckoo.) 



A single specimen was obtained in January last by 

 Mr. Swynnerton. 



142. Chrysococcyx cupreus. (Golden Cuckoo.) 



This beautiful little Cuckoo is not very common, being 

 found both in the bush and perching on low shrubs in open 

 swamp-land, its very distinctive call soon betraying its 

 presence. It certainly breeds with us, as I have observed 

 young birds in January. 



143. Chrysococcyx smaragdinus. (Emerald Cuckoo.) 

 Mr. George Taylor informed me that this species was fairly 



common in the forests of Makombi's country, some 100 

 miles N.E. of Salisbury, where he was Native Commissioner 

 for some time. 



14i. Centropus burchelli. (Burchell's Lark-heeled 

 Cuckoo.) 



A fairly common bird among reedy thickets along tlie 



