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Chibabava and Chironda, and noted it at a sand-stream 

 between the Mwaigezi River and Chimbuya, at Chibabava, 

 and ill the Brachystegia woods near Arucate. On November 

 4th I examined a nest of this species, out of which the youngf 

 birds had recently flown, though they were still hanging 

 about the spot. It was the slightest of structures, about 

 7 inches in diameter, and exactly resembled that of a 

 Turtle-Dove, just a few small twigs laid on the thick 

 horizontal bough of a Bridelia overhanging a stream, 

 twenty feet from the ground. The nest contained the outer 

 husk of a Cape gooseberry [Physalis), and the quantities of 

 droppings all round were composed chiefly of the wild fig, 

 Dierking also found a nest in November at Maruma, and 

 sent me one of the young birds. My tame bird ate the eggs 

 of a Haplopelia which had been laid in my aviary. 



208. ScHizoRHis coNcoLOR. Grey Touraco. 



Singuni: ''Umdhliiwe^^ or "Umxuwe" (the "x" repre- 

 senting a Zulu click) . 



I heard a " Go-away Bird " on the Mwangezi River on the 

 25th of November, 1906. The stomach of my Mashonaland 

 specimen contained young leaves and a large seed. 



209. PYOCEPHALUS ROBUSTUs ANGOLENsis. Browu-nccked 

 Parrot. 



Chindao : '^ Chiwhangwa.'^ Singuni : " Ihokwe " or 

 " Isikwenene " (these three names being applied to all 

 Parrots) . 



Rh., P. In August in the Jihu a few scattered individuals 

 were to be seen every evening flying high overhead and 

 making for the direction of Chirinda. The local natives 

 informed me that they knew of no roosting-place in the 

 Jihu itself, and that the Parrots were in the habit of doing 

 the journey, fourteen miles from where I was encamped, 

 twice daily. In November 1906 and in the following 

 January I met with these Parrots in the Zinyumbo Hills 

 and on the Umswirizwi, the latter being also, I believC;^ 

 Chirinda birds. 



