82 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 



flesh-colour. Eiglit of these Thrashes averaged in length 

 8*47 inches, with a maximum and minimum of 8*25 and 9*5 

 (an exceptional specimen) in the flesh. 



117. MoxTicoLA ANGOLENSis. Angola Rock -Thrush. 

 Eh., P. A fairly common resident species, chiefly found 



up to the present in the Uapaca groves in the neighbour- 

 hood of Chirinda, and in those between the Inyaraadzi and 

 Buzi Rivers, where, though distinctly shy, it is fairly com- 

 mon, its orange abdomen and blue head and back being 

 conspicuous at a distance. I also once saw one in the upper 

 Jihu. It flies straight up into the nearest tree on being 

 disturbed. 



Four males average 7"68 inches in tlie flesh, varying from 

 75 to 7 85, and two females measured 7 and 725 inches 

 respectively. The stomachs contained the debris of beetles, 

 a number of large winged termites, a large beetle-larva, and 

 remnants of ants and other insects. 



118. Pratincola torquata. South African Stone-Chat. 

 Chindao : " ]\Iucherechedza-badza " (ply-the-hoe). 



Rh., P. I have seen the Stone-Chat fairly frequently in 

 the upper Jihu, at Maruma, and in the Chikamboge Valley, 

 as well as throughout Northern and Southern Melsetter, but 

 I have never yet found it in the lower Jihu. Its full song, 

 uttered while in the air and descending to its perch, is a 

 loud " Chwe-chwe-chwe-tseee ! " (the last note clear and 

 piping) ; it is apparently the flrst, which is often repeated 

 many times and is rendered by the natives as '^^ Chere-chere ^' 

 &c., which has gained for this bird its somewhat fanciful 

 native name. 1 have measured eighteen of these birds, 

 ranging from 5 to 5*7 inches in the flesh and averaging 5'4 ; 

 and the same number of stomachs have contained flies, 

 a bug, beetle- and moth-larvae, ants, two hard seeds, a small 

 millipede, a small centipede, grasshoppers, and beetles, some- 

 times entire, including a Cetoniid. 



119. Saxicola pileata livingstoxii. Livingstone's 

 Wheatear. 



Rh. These Wheatears were particularly plentiful in mid- 



