Fort Chiqucujua, Mas/ionaland. 575 



43. Cerchneis rupicola (Dand.) ; Sliarpc, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. i. p. 429. 



Tinnuncnlus rupicola Shelley, ibis, 1882, p. 239. 



Very common all over the Salisbury district, living about 

 the kopjes. It feeds much on locusts during the wet 

 season. 



[Mr. Sowerby assures me that he is quite certain that 

 this specimen, which is in the full plumage of a male 

 bird, was really ^female. He made certain of the fact, as 

 he was surprised to find such a diflference in the colour of a 

 female bird from that of our Common Kestrel of England, 

 and he therefore took particular note of the sexual organs. 

 From this it would appear that the adult female of C rupicola 

 assumes the plumage of the adult male bird. — R. B. S.] 



44. Bubo maculosus (V.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 239. 

 Fairly common, for an Owl. I always found them in the 



])ush, not in the kopjes. 



45. Syrnium wooDFORDi (Smith) ; Sharpe, Cat. B.^Brit. 

 Mus. ii. p. 267 (1875). 



I saw only one ; it was in a thick evergreen in a kopje, 

 and was being mobbed by small birds. 



46. Strix flammea L. ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 240. 

 Sits in caves in the kopjes. I saw three at Chiquaqua. 



47. LoBivANELLUs LATERALIS (Smith) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 14i (1894) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363. 



Found in almost any flat near water or swampy ground, 

 but only in the wet season. Flies round one after the 

 manner of the Peewit, uttering a successioii of loud notes. 

 Mashona name, " Querri-Querri." 



48. ViNAGo delalandii (Bp.) ; Salvad. Cat. B.Brit. Mus. 

 xxi. p. 24 (1893). 



Treron delalandii, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 358. 



This Pigeon appeared suddenly in rather large flocks to 

 feed on the fruit of certain trees. It has a note quite 

 unlike an ordinary Pigeou^s, being more of a whistle than 

 a " coo.^' 



