104 Messrs. A. Haagner and R. H. Ivy on the 



175. Trichol^ma leucomelas (Bodd.). Pied Barbet. 

 Fairly common. 



176. Barbatula pusilla (Dumont). Tinker Bird. 

 Common. 



177. CucuLUS soLiTARius, Steph. Red-chested Cuckoo. 

 The egg is of a peculiar chocolate-brown colour and 



measures 2G x 19 mm. 



178. CucuLUS CLAMOSUS, Lath. Black Cuckoo. 

 Lays a white egg, measuring 2G X 21 mm. 



179. *Chrysococcyx smaragdineus (Swains.). Emerald 

 Cuckoo. 



Rare in Albany. 



180. Chrysococcyx klaasi (Steph.). Bronze Cuckoo. 

 (Jommon. This is the commonest of the Grold Cuckoos in 



the Albany Division and apparently a partial resident, as 

 several specimens were procured in the heart of winter. 

 There are specimens in the Transvaal Museum procured in 

 June 1906, so this species does not appear so migratory as 

 is generally supposed t. 



One egg from Grahamstown is of a blunt " elongated ovate " 

 shape, the ground-colour being light bluish green, spotted 

 with underlying but not very numerous reddish-brown 

 blotches and surface-markings about the size of a pin's head, 

 or even smaller ; the spots form an open zone and diminish in 

 number toward the smaller end, where they finally cease. It 

 is somewhat glossy and measures 23' 75 X 14*0 mm. Fig. 14, 

 Plate III. (H. G.). 



181. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.). Didric Cuckoo. 

 Common. Our remarks on the habits of the Gold Cuckoos 



were published in a separate paper in the June, 1906, number 

 of this Journal. 



[One egg from the Crocodile River north of the Magalies- 

 berg, Pretoria District, Transvaal (December 31, 1906), is of 

 a somewhat " ovate " shape, the ground-colour being uniform 

 t Vide also L. E. Tajlor, Bull. B. 0. C. cxviii. 



