THE IBIS 



NINTH SERIES. 



No. VII. JULY 1908. 



XIV. — Fvrtlier Notes on the Birds of Gazaland. 

 By C. F. M. SwYNNEHTON, F.L.S., C.M.B.O.U. 



[Continued from p. 107.] 

 (Plate VIII.) 



153. Upupa africana. South-African Hoopoe. 

 Singuni: ^'Inzirapupu.'' Chindao: ''Chigububu.^' (Both 



names in imitation of the bircFs note.) 



Rh., P. I have seen little of this Hoopoe during the 

 past year, probably owing to my absence in September, 

 when it is always most plentiful near Chirinda. However, 

 on the 13th of August I noticed a pair on an open path in 

 the Jihu and heard others calling in the grass-jungle ; on the 

 15th, 16th, and 21st of the same month I noted birds in 

 different localities near Chirinda ; on September the 8th 

 in the Inyamadzi Valley, and a few days later in the coffee- 

 plantation at Maruma. Near Arucate I saw this species 

 twice, on December 5th and 6th. 



The stomach of my specimen contained weevils and other 

 beetles. The bill was black and the digits and tarsi grey. 



154. IkRISOR ERYTHRORHYNCHUS (Lath.). 



Irrisor erythrorhynchus Reichenow, Vog. Afr. ii. p. 338. 

 Singuni : " Ihlebabafazi.'^ 



Rh,, P. This handsome but unpleasantly noisy bird is 

 not uncommon throughout the Jihu^ and I obtained a 



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