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



■were moving about noiselessly on the larger branches amongst 

 dense foliage. Odendaal has since sent me another male, 

 stated to measure 7'34 inches in the flesh, shot near 

 Chirinda on June 18th. 



193. Indicator major. Yellow-throated Honey-Guide. 

 Singuni: " Inhlalala.'' Chindao : "Ishezu." (Both 



these names are applied to all the Honey-Guides.) 



Rh. On the 29th of March, 1907, Odendaal shot a male of 

 this species, one of four which were in attendance on a 

 bees^ nest that had just been taken from a hollow tree. It 

 measured 7*25 inches in the flesh ; the bill was black, the feet 

 were blackish, and the irides brown. The bare skin round 

 the eye was bluish grey. The stomach contained beeswax 

 only. 



194. Indicator minor. Lesser Honey-Guide. 



P. I obtained one of these birds on August 6th, 1906, 

 sitting quietly on a branch in the dense bush on the 

 Kurumadzi. It measured 6'25 inches in the flesh; the upper 

 mandible and the point of the lower were blackish, the rest 

 of the lower mandible was pinkish grey, the feet were olive- 

 grey, and the irides dark brown. The stomach contained 

 beeswax and the remains of small insects. 



As it still appears to be doubted whether these birds really 

 do lead to honey, I may mention that on May 29th, 1898, I 

 myself and one of my natives were guided by a Lesser 

 Honey-Guide to a bees^ nest in a hole in the ground close 

 to the junction of the Hanyani and Makabusi Rivers in 

 Mashonaland, the bird behaving just as it is ordinarily 

 reported to do. 



195. Lybius torquatus. Black-collared Barbet. 

 Chindao : " Umkweboro.^' 



Rh., P. In the lowlands from November 1906 to January 

 I met with this Barbet on the Zinyumbo Hills, at Chimbuya, 

 on the Umtefu, and between Muchukwana and Chironda, 

 always in the open bush. I have on more than one occasion 

 noted a pair facing each other on the same twig two or 

 three inches apart, both bobbing up and down in the most 



