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the flesh ; bill light ashy-grey, feet light blue-grey, irides 

 brown -madder. The three stomachs examined contained 

 grasshoppers^ large and small, a whole mantis egg-case, two 

 larvae, beetles, and other insect debris. 



76. Telephonus anchiet.e. Anchieta's Bush-Shrike. 



Telephonus anchiet(s, Gad. Cat. B. viii. p. 129. 



Rh., P. A bolder bird than either T. seneyalus or T. aus- 

 tralis, choosing the tops of stakes and shrubs to perch on 

 instead of skulking, as they do, in the undergrowth, and 

 recognisable at once and at a distance by its conspicuous 

 buffy-white breast and upright carriage. 



I have twice secured specimens in the lower Jihu, the 

 . second time on the 11th August, the bird, which was in 

 immature plumage, perching on a tall grass-stem a few yards 

 from the Kurumadzi. And on the 7th November I shot a 

 third at 3500 feet in a gully at the foot of Chirinda, the 

 stomach of which contained grasshoppers and beetles. Bill 

 black ; feet light slaty-grey ; irides pale brown-madder. 

 In the immature bird the bill was dusky with a paler gonys 

 and the feet leaden grey, and it measured 7*5 inches in the 

 flesh as against the 7* 19 and 7'7 of my other two specimens. 

 In plumage it differed in the feathers of the crown being 

 wholly or partly pale buff, giving a pale centre and a 

 generally blotchy appearance to the cap ; eyebrow butfy 

 white and inconspicuous ; lower parts rather more strongly 

 tinged with buff than in the adult. The stomachs contained 

 grasshoppers, beetles, and dragon-flies. 



77. Dkyoscopus cubla. Lesser Puff-back Shrike. 



Rh., P. Extremely plentiful on the Kurumadzi, particu- 

 larly in the thick bush, in which, not only in the Jihu but 

 in the neighbourhood of Chirinda, it never goes about in 

 the flocks which I have noted in the open woods of the 

 higher elevations, but is always to be met with singly or in 

 pairs and is also somewhat shyer than when in larger parties. 

 It is a most diligent insect-hunter, and I have frequently 

 watched it carefully and systematically examining the. 



