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



were dark brown^ the eyelids bright gamboge, the bare skin 

 round the eyes was olive-green, and the feet were dull 

 gamboge. 



199. Chrysococcyx smaragdineus. Emerald Cuckoo. 



P. I heard this Cuckoo calling on the Kurumadzi on 

 August 5th and 7th, 1906. 



200. Chrysococcyx cupreus. Didric Cuckoo. 

 Singuni : " Inchalayandayandai " (in imitation of the 



bird's call). 



Rh., P. During the past year I have come across the 

 Didric in the upper Jihu and occasionally on the Kuru- 

 madzi both in August and November. In the lowlands 

 I noted it at several points between Chibabava and 

 Chironda between December and January, and used con- 

 stantly to hear its call during my stay at the former place. 

 Odendaal has just sent me a male, which he obtained 

 near Chirinda on Dec. 30th, and which measured 7'7 inches 

 in the flesh. 



201. CoccYSTEs GLANDARius. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



P. I twice noted a pair of these Cuckoos on December 

 6th, 1906, in the Brachystegia bush near Arucate. In three 

 specimens which I obtained in Mashonaland in January 

 1899, the eyelids were vermilion, the feet blue-grey, while 

 the bill was dull black, white at the angles. The stomachs 

 examined contained locusts, beetles, and quantities of large 

 hairy caterpillars. 



202. CoccYSTES HYPOPiNARius. Black-aud-Grcy Cuckoo. 

 Rh., P. This larger grey-chested race of Coccystes jacobi- 



nus is represented in my collection by No. 1115, a female 

 shot at Zinyumbo on Nov. 25th, 1906, having three well- 

 developed eggs in her ovaries. On the other hand, a 

 specimen obtained near Chirinda on February 6th is 

 certainly typical C. jacobinus, while No. 471, shot in the 

 same locality on March 1st, is intermediate between the 

 two, both in colour and in measurements. I found these 

 birds common from the Chinyika River to the Zinyumbo 



