574 Mr. J. L. Sowcrlw on Birch from 



upper surface is also mottled with wliite^ all the featliers 

 liaviug very bi'oad white ti[)s ; the sides of the face and neck 

 are pure white, and tlie crown is Avhite streaked with dark 

 brown, with a very evident nuchal crest of pointed brown 

 feathers.— R. B. S.] 



38. CiHCAETUs ciNEREUs V. ; Sharpc, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 i.p. 282 (1874). 



I only saw three or four of these, all at Chiquaqua. Iris 

 bright orange-yellow. I ate the breast of this Eagle and 

 found it not absolutely bad after many months of "bully- 

 beef." 



39. Helotarsus ecaudatus (Daud.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 238. 



I saw the Bateleur at Fort Mandora, 60 or 70 miles S.W. of 

 Salisbury. It was fairly common at Chiquaqua at times. 

 I saw very few in Matabelelaud, possibly on account of the 

 country being mostly flat, with few kopjes. It has a loud 

 single scream, something like that of a Great Black-backed 

 Gull, and drops its legs to the full extent at each repetition. 

 It has also a habit of swinging from side to side with first one 

 wing up and then the other, keeping the wings rigid and 

 rather turned up over the back. I have seen them feed on 

 locusts and Guinea-fowl, and I shot a young bird feeding 

 on a dead mule. 



40. AsTURiNULA MONOGRAMMiCA (T.); Guy Marshall, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 241. 



Fairly common in bush- veldt. 



41. MiLVus /EGYPTius (Gm.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 238. 

 Migratory. Entirely absent from Mashonaland from 



about March to October, so far as I saw. Feeds principally 

 on locusts and such-like insects, which it catches and eats on 

 the wing. The first I saw after their return appeared with 

 the first swarm of locusts. They were very common in 

 November, 1896, in the harbours of the S.E. coast, picking 

 up garbage from the surface of the water. 



42. Falco BiARMicus Tcunu. ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239. 

 I saw only two or three of these Falcons. 



