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



falling through. The eggs are always rounded and 

 measure from 34 to 37 mm. in length and from 24*5 to 

 27 ram. in breadth. The irides of all my specimens have 

 been calamine, and the feet dusky grey or blue-grey, some- 

 what blackish on the toes. The base of the gonys is whitish. 

 A fair-sized bug, a migratory locust, three or four snails 

 (including fragments of a particularly large species of 

 Achatina), beetles, and grasshoppers have been amongst the 

 contents of the stomachs examined. 



My Salisbury (Mashonaland) specimens prove to be 

 Centropus Jlecki Rchw. 



205. Centropus nigrorufus. Natal Coucal. 



E;h., P. During the past year I have noticed this bird 

 near Chirinda, at Maruma, and in the Jihu. The stomach 

 of one which I obtained some time ago contained beetles. 



206. TuRAcus LiviNGSTONii. Livingstonc's Touraco. 

 Singuni : " Igwalagwala/^ Chindao : " Ihurukuru." 

 Rh., P. I have noticed that these Touracos call most in 



the morning and evening, particularly the latter. One 

 individual will start the loud quick " ka-ka-ka-ka-ka " note, 

 half a dozen others will join in, and finally all will end up 

 with a regular chorus of the crowing note — really quite 

 deafening when close at hand. I noticed this Touraco 

 during September in a wooded glen near Maruma and in 

 one of the forest-patches in the Chikamboge Valley. In the 

 lowlands I came across it in December and January amongst 

 the dense-foliaged trees that line some of the dry streams 

 between the Umtefu and Chibabava, and found it to be not 

 uncommon in the Madanda forests. 



207. Gallirex porphyreolophus. Purple - crested 

 Touraco. 



Singuni: ''^ Igwalagwala." Chindao: "Ihurukuru.^'' 

 Rh., P. In March and April the Purple-crested Touraco 

 constantly visits the outskirts of small outlying forest-patches 

 for the sake of the berries of Echebergia meyeri, which 

 are then ripe. Usually it prefers the open woods. In the 

 lowlands I found it to be comparatively plentiful between 



