Birds of Gatahind. 93 



three stomachs of this species which I sent him were as 

 follows : — 



"No. 889. 5 crickets, 1 young grasshopper (Acridian), 

 2 lepidopterous larvae, 1 ant. 



'' No. 898. 2 green Locustids (probably living on bushes), 

 2 young Acridians, 2 raantises, 3 lepidopterous larvae, 



1 spider, 2 ai^ts, 1 frog-hopper, and 2 beetles (1 wingless, 

 Opatrium arenarium F. ; 1 winged, family Aothrihidce). 



" No. 899. 4 bugs, 2 frog-hoppers, 2 lepidopterous larvae, 



2 Locustids, 2 small maatises, and 1 ant.'^ 



133. Platystira peltata. Green-throated Flycatcher. 



P. During September of 1906 I twice saw this rare 

 Flycatcher at Maruma, and a few days later noted a male 

 in the dense scrub near the Chikamboge and a pair in the 

 Inyamakuwha forest-patch in the same valley, securing the 

 female. On first missing her the male for half an hour or 

 more searched the forest-patch from end to end, at first 

 remaining persistently for some time in the neighboarhood 

 of where he had last seen her, uttering all the time a harsh 

 " Wech-wech-wech, &c." (German "ch"), quickly repeate.i. 

 Again, on November 29th, 1 secured a male, evidently 

 breeding, in a large shady Trichilia in the Chibabava 

 plantation, at the same shot unexpectedly killing a rare Bat. 



The bill of this Flycatcher is black, the tarsi and feet (in 

 the breeding male) grey, deepest in tone on the curiously- 

 wrinkled toes, where it is also strongly tinged with cobalt. 

 Irides deep purple-grey, in the Chibabava bird nearly black, 

 with a narrow silvery ring round the pupil. The back of the 

 eye- wattles, except the actual margin, which is bright red 

 as in front, is dull light yellow. Length in flesh 5*5 and 

 5'7 inches. The three stomachs examined contained small 

 beetles and flies. 



134. Batis erythrophthalma. Red-eyed Cape Flycatcher. 



Batis erijthrophihalma Swynnerton, Bull. B. O. C. xix. 

 p. 109. 



Rh., P. This is the Batis dimorpha of my recent paper in 

 this Journal (1907, p. G9), Captain Shelley, who had then 



