from the Ruo and Shire Rivers. 593 



difficult to shoot. I saw one have a long hunt after a 

 Wai'bler, which was in some cover, too thick for the Hawk 

 to get through. I saw another kill a Weaver-bird. 



Q7. AsTUR INULA MONOGRAMMiCA Tcmm. ; Shcllcy, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 229. 



I obtained a very fine female of this Hawk on August 12 : 

 it was sitting gorged with termites, and allowed me to 

 walk right up to it. This was just after a shower of rain, 

 and the termites were out in thousands. It is a bird of 

 the thick bush and is seldom seen out of it. I observed 

 some four or five at different times, but always in the 

 thickest cover. When flying away the white rump shews 

 very distinctly. 



68. MACHiERHAMPHUS ANDERSsoNi (Gurncy) j Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 343 (1874). 



This bird is nocturnal and feeds on bats. 



My specimen was obtained one evening in the early part 

 of August, 1898, while I was waiting for Ducks. In flight 

 the bird much resembles a Falcon ; in fact, until it came 

 to hand, I thought that it was one. Its stomach was quite 

 empty, and the bird itself in very poor condition. It was a 

 young male in changing plumage. 



One other example was seen near the Shire River, some 

 twenty-five miles from where I obtained my specimen. I 

 spent almost the whole of one night watching for it, then 

 told my gun-boy to stay, and promised him a reward if he 

 got it; he saw it on the following evening, but did not get 

 a shot. Later he brought me a female Polyboroides iypicus, 

 which he said was the right bird, and was anxious to have 

 the reward. 



I asked my boys the name of the bird and they all said 

 it was Chic^a^babo ; but that name very likely covers several 

 other Hawks as well. 



69. Haliaictus vocifer (Daud.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 549. 



By no means rare along the Zambesi and the Shire, 

 breeding both on rocks and in trees. 



