572 Mr. J. L. Sower})y on Birds from 



29. Gallirex porphyreolophus (Vig.) ; Shelley, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xix. p. 44[). 



Common in the kopjes, and occasionally seen in the bush 

 Avhere a certain tree grows, beaiing the same fruit which the 

 Green Fruit-Pigeons affect. 



Sits a great deal in thick trees in the day, every now and 

 then uttering a series of grunting croaks, each note sounding- 

 more laboured than the last. It also has some loud flute- 

 like notes, and has a habit of assembling in threes and fours 

 and hopping about and going through some curious antics, 

 keeping close together in the middle of the tree. 



30. Indicator major Stcph. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xix. p. 6 (1891). 



Common, Mostly found in bush-veldt, but always singly. 

 It hardly ever fails to take one near a bees'-nest j but never, 

 so far as I saw, actually sits down beside the nest. It keeps 

 up a most energetic, fitful chattering all the while, very 

 like that of a squirrel at home. 



31. Dendropicus cardinalis (Gm.) ; Guy Marshall, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 242. 



Fairly common in bush-veldt in the Salisbury district. 



32. PoGONORHYJNCHUs TORQUATUs (Dum.) ; Shcllcy, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 248; Guy Marshall, Ibis, 1896, p. 242. 



Very common. Note very loud. Frequents bush and 

 kopjes alike. 



33. Smilorhis soAVERRYi. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 

 Stactolcema sowerbyi Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vii. 



p. xxxvi. 



I saw quite half a dozen of this bird at different times, both 

 in kopjes and in the bush-veldt, and was suiprised to find 

 that it was a new species. 



[This s^^ecies is, to a certain extent, intermediate between 

 Staciolcema anchietce and Smiloi'his wliytii Shelley. It seems 

 to me that the genera StactoltPma and Smilorhis cannot be 

 separated on the characters given by Capt. Shelley (Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xix, p, 14), as the nostrils do not appear to be 



