Birds from North-east Rhodesia. 83 



576. Abdimia abdimii. (White-bellied Stork.) 

 Several hundred of these birds visited Irene at end of 

 January and remained for about a week. During the day- 

 time they flew to adjacent farms, but always returned to roost 

 here in the evening on the Acacia trees. The presence of 

 these birds in such large numbers was probably due to the 

 fact of the presence in the neighbourhood of large flights of 

 locusts. 



*5. BuPHAGA ERYTHROKHYNCHA. (Red-billed Oxpecker.) 

 Three of these birds were seen by my brother and myself 

 in January 1906, The occurrence of these birds in the 

 High Veld is apparently unusual, as they are, properly, a low- 

 country species. 



XVIII. — Notes on a Collection of Birds made in North-east 

 Rhodesia hy Dr. F. E. Stoehr. By Dr. F. E. Stoehr and 

 W. L. ScLATER, M.A., F.Z.S., Director of the South 

 African Museum, Cape Town. 



This collection was made by the first-named author between 

 July 1903 and October 1905 whilst acting as Medical Officer 

 to the Geodetic Survey engaged in completing the triangula- 

 tion between Rhodesia and Lake Tanganyika. 



The work of the survey commenced at Feira, which is 

 situated on the north bank of the Zambesi, at its confluence 

 with the Loangwa. Here, or in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood, the greater number of the birds mentioned in the list 

 were collected. During the latter half of 1905, however, 

 from July onwards. Dr. Stoehr was in the neighbourhood of 

 Mpika and Serenji, about 200 miles north of the Zambesi, 

 and about 100 miles west of Fort Jamieson, the headquarters 

 of the administration of North-east Rhodesia, and it was in 

 this region that most of the birds not mentioned in the 

 ' Check-list of the Birds of South Africa •" (1905) were met 

 with. 



In the list which follows, 249 species are recorded, and 



