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throughout the country, though I do not know if all were 

 of tlie same race. On the Tsavo it was common and fond of 

 crawling about in thick grass and under the dead palm- 

 leaves; it rarely flew more than a few yards. It has a weird 

 bubbling note. 



The immature specimen has a tail of 9 "5 inches against 

 the others' 8, and it is barred for its whole length, the bars 

 becoming wider at the tip. 



Chrysococcyx klaasi. 



Cucu/us klaasi Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. ix. pt. i. 

 1815, p. 128 [South Africa]. 



Chrysococcyx klaasi Keichw. Vog. Afr. ii. 1902, p. 98. 

 S . Thika. 27th August. Wing 99 mm. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill and legs green. 

 Only one example seen. 



Cuculus clamosus. 



Cuculus clamosus Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. Suppl. 1802, p. xxx 

 [Cape] ; Reichw. Vog. Afr. ii. 1902, p. 86. 



^ . Ithanga Hills. 6th October. Wing 168 mm. 



Iris red ; bill black ; legs brown. 



1 saw this bird on one occasion only. It was sitting on 

 a dead bough like a Drongo, and I should have passed it by 

 as such except that a real Drongo came and mobbed it. 



Corythaixoides leucogaster. 



Chizdrhis leucogaster Kiipp. Mus. Senck. iii, 1842, p. 127 

 [S. Abyssinia]. 



Corythaixoides leucogaster C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 414. 



S . Tsavo River. 20th July. Wing 213 mm. 



? . „ 27th July. „ 217 mm. 



Iris dark or brown ; bill green ; legs black. 

 Common on the Tsavo River. A very noisy bird with a 

 bleat like a sheep. 



Both these birds have green bills. 



Gallirex porphyreolophus chlorochlamys. 

 Gallirex chlorochlamys Shelley, Ibis, 1881, p. 118 [Ugogo] ; 

 Reichw. Vog; Afr. ii. 1902, p. 40. 



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