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ends of the toes. The tarsi were sealed, with ouly faint 

 traces of budding feathers. 



217. Scops CAPENsis. Cape Scops Owl. 

 Chindao : " Chidzizimbori.'' 



Rh. Odendaal secured a male of this species on July 31st, 

 1907, near Chirinda. Its bill was " black, the cere was 

 dusky, the irides were deep gamboge, the eyelids brown, and, 

 the feet grey-brown." 



218. Falco subbuteo. Hobby. 



Rh. On March 22nd I noted three Hobbies flying over in 

 the neighbourhood of Chipete. I had only previously seen 

 this bird on two or three occasions in Gazaland, though I 

 obtained a number of specimens near Salisbury in January 

 1899. In the gullet of one of these I found a Terias 

 butterfly, almost intact. 



219. TiNNUNCULus RUPicoLA. South- African Kestrel. 

 Singuni : " Ukozi.'^ Chindao : " Igodzi." (These terms 



are applied indiscriminately to nearly all Hawks.) 



Rh., P. A male of this species which I shot near Chirinda 

 on June 25th measured 12*5 inches in the flesh, and its 

 stomach contained a number of locusts. 



220. TiNNUNcuLcrs dickinsoni. Dickinson^s Kestrel. 

 Rh. Odendaal obtained a male of this Kestrel near 



Chirinda on May 21st, 1907. It measured 12'85 inches in 

 the flesh ; its bill was " blackish (bluish at base) ; the cere, 

 base of lower mandible, gape, bare skin round eye, and feet 

 were deep gamboge ; the irides deep vandyk-brown." 



221. Aquila rapax. Tawny Eagle. 



Singuni : "■ Uqosi.'^ Chindao : " Igamo."' (These two 

 names are applied to many of the larger Eagles.) 



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

 noted this fine Eagle in the Zinyumbo Hills, at Gwara- 

 gwara, and between the Muzala and Inyajena. On 

 September 13th I watched an individual at Maruma perched 

 on a low acacia beside a Kafir kraal, with an eye on the 



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