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or deep brown. The feet and claws are black, the soles 

 pale brownish. Seven of these birds, measured in the flesh, 

 averaged 32*85 inches, with a variation of from 31 to 34-5. 



Chirinda is, I believe, the southernmost locality yet recorded 

 for this species. 



184. LopHocERos MELANOLEucus. Crowncd Hornbill. 

 Chindao: "Igoto." Chizwina (Mashona) : '' Woto.'' 

 Rh., P. I found these Hornbills in the upper Jihu, just 



south of Chirinda, in July 1906, and noted a pair on 

 August 1st on the Kurumadzi. They were common on the 

 Inyamadzi in September, frequently crossing the valley or 

 flying from tree to tree. In ordinary flight they give a few 

 heavy flaps and glide a few yards, then come some more 

 flaps and a glide, and so on. When descending slantwise 

 they glide rapidly, merely making an inward movement of 

 the wings to the sides every few yards. 



I again noted them constantly in the Chikamboge Valley 

 and at Maruma in the same month, where one was frequenting 

 a banana-grove within a few yards of Dierking^s house. I 

 also met with them at intervals throughout the lowlands, 

 obtaining a specimen at Indabila on January 4th. 



185. Hapaloderma narina. Narina Trogon. 



Rh., P. On August 10th, near the Kurumadzi, a female 

 rose on my approach frona a stream, where it had evidently 

 been drinking, into a small tree. It did not appear at all shy, 

 merely ascending by one or two rapid flights and then sitting 

 quietly looking at me with its head over its shoulder and its 

 metallic-green back flashing back the rays of the sun — a 

 lovely bird. Odendaal has since sent me a second female, 

 obtained by him near Chirinda on October 2nd, 1907. 



My specimen measured 11'5 inches in the flesh, its 

 stomach contained a larva, grasshoppers, hymenoptera, and 

 quite a number of beetles, including two large Cetoniids. 

 The culmen was blackish, the base of both mandibles 

 gamboge, and the point of the lower light greenish grey. 

 The irides were deep umber-brown and the feet delicate pale 

 pinkish brown, whitish between the scutellations. 



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