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excitement as they did so. Again, on November 4th, I 

 came across two separate parties within a mile or two of 

 Chirinda, noisily engaged in inseet-hiinting in the Brachy- 

 stegias. The four in my collection measured from 4"7 to 4*9 

 inches in the flesh. Bill black; irides yellowish white; eyelids 

 ochreous chestnut ; tarsi and feet light pinkish brown. The 

 stomachs contained minute insects, apparently flies and 

 aphides. 



101. Camaroptera olivacea. Green-backed Bush- 

 Warbler. 



P. I found this little Warbler to be not unplentiful in 

 the dense bush of tlie Kurumadzi during August. In 

 appearance it might be mistaken at a little distance for the 

 female of the other common Bush-Warbler, Chlorodyta 

 neglecta, but I always found it keeping low in the bush, 

 whereas the other appeared to prefer the higher branches. 

 Its kid-like note varies a good deal, being weak, sbrill, and 

 long-drawn in some individuals and in others short and witli 

 quick regular intervals, exactly as though one were to 

 squeeze an india-rubber toy goat in and out fairly rapidly 

 several times in succession. I have beard only one which 

 I could have taken for a real kid : the bleat was weaker, bvit 

 might have been taken for a kid calling at a little distance. 

 At the same time I think that its ventriloquial powers 

 may have been somewhat exaggerated, for personally I 

 have not found the least difficulty in locating the bird 

 from its note. 



I also noted this Warbler at Zinyumbo and near the coast 

 within a few miles of Beira. 



Length in the flesh 4*1 to 4"25 inches ; irides orange- 

 chestnut. The stomachs contained the debris of minute 

 insects. 



102. Sylviella whytei. Whyte's Warbler. 

 Sylviella whytei Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 13. 



Rh., P. I secured a female on the 1st of December, in 

 the large open bush near the Chibabava rubber-plantation, 

 carefully searching the higher twigs of a Peltophorum for 

 insects. Its stomach contained a larva, a small beetle^ and 



