18 Mr. R. H. Ivy on the Nesting 



of having met with it north of the Cape Colony. This is 

 the second example I have seen here dnritig a residence of 

 fonr years. The above-mentioned bird was in full and 

 splendid dress. 



On the 22nd of October my brother shot a female speci- 

 men of the Greenshank {Tutanus canescens) still in winter 

 plumage. They are scarce in these parts. The Bronze 

 Cuckoo [Chnjsococcyx cnpreus) is common hereabouts 

 (Pretoria district). On the 22nd October I shot a specimen 

 in typical and glorious plumage. The bird was really 

 gorgeous in its brilliant and fiery golden (and in some lights 

 bronzy) green colour. Naked skin round eye light scarlet ; 

 irides light carmine ; culmen and tip of lower mandible 

 horn, remainder of lower mandible light bluish slate-colour ; 

 legs and toe-nails brownish black. 



After rather a long absence the Hoopoes (Upupa africana) 

 have once more made their appearance in our district, and 

 in no small numbers. On October the 22nd I shot three 

 specimens. On the 5th August, 1899, 1 obtained a specimen 

 of the Bakbakkiri Busk-Shrike {Laniarius gutturalis) in 

 interesting plumage. The whole chin, throat, breast, and 

 underparts were of a blackish-yellow colour, without the 

 black and yellow markings on the three former regions. 

 Iris yellowish brown ; base of lower mandible light horn- 

 colour, rest of bill black. 



Moddeifontein, 



3rd April, 1900. 



V. — Notes on the Nesting and other Habits of some South- 

 African Birds. By R. H. Ivy *. 



1. Lamprocolius melaxogaster (S\v.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 xiii. p. 182. 



This bird is not common here, and though I have seen 

 several clutches of eggs, I myself have only once found the 



* [Mr. Ivy, a resident at Grahamstown, in the Eastern Province of 

 Cape Colony, has sent me the following notes on the habits of some of 



