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90. Chlorocichla oleagixea. Peters' Bulbiil. 

 Chindao (at Chibabava) : Icbwikidjori/' 



P. I shot one of these Bulbuls, a male, on the Tth of 

 December, at Gezanye, moving about quietly in the foliage 

 of a large tree. It was evidently breeding, to judge by the 

 development of the testes. It measured in the flesh 8* 1 inches, 

 and its stomach-contents were a large green larva and the 

 remains of fruit. 



91. Chlorocichla occidextalis. Damara Bulbul. 

 Chindao (at Chibabava) : " Ichvvikidjori." 



P. I have noted this bird on the Umswiri/wi, on the 

 Umtefu River, at Inyajena, and at several other points 

 between Mt. Siuguno and Chibabava, both in open and 

 dense bush ; also at Bimba. Both in the Brachijfiteyia 

 woods at Arucate and in the Madanda forests it is common, 

 and in the high veld I have found it, always in dense bush, 

 in the valley of the Inyamadzi and (in the Mafusi country) 

 in the Maruma forest-patch and the smaller patches of 

 the Chikamboge Valley. In the Jihu it is plentiful in the 

 dense bush of the Kurumadzi, though far more often heard 

 than seen. While the bird was still new to me I have time 

 after time followed its harsh " Barac-barac ! " or tinny '' twe- 

 twe-twe, &c.^' notes from point to point without once catch- 

 ing sight of it, though always within a few yards, so cleverly 

 does it utilize its protective coloration amongst the green 

 foliage of the trees. 



I have twice taken the nest of this Bulbul, in November 

 and December, one in the dense bush of the Jihu, slung at 

 a height of about seven feet between the thin hanging stems 

 of a climbing fern [Lygodium suhalatum), and the second nine 

 feet from the ground in a bunch of upright suckers growing 

 from the horizontal branch of a large thorny Flacourtia in 

 the open woods near Chibabava. The latter was a shallow, 

 loose, clumsy structure, composed of the dry stems of climbing 

 and other herbs and lined with similar but finer stems and 

 the thin midribs of pinnate leaves. The other was similarly 

 lined with the midribs of Albizzia fastigiata, but composed, 



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