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a few miles from Port Elizabeth. It was procured by Mr. 

 A. W. Ryneveldj who complained that it ate his figs. I see 

 Sclater mentions it has this habit, but states that it has not 

 been known to occur as far south as our Colony. 



Port Elizabeth, F. W. FiTzSlMONS, 



8. 5. 1910. Director P. E. Museum. 



6. Soft Parts of Narina Trogon.— I note in Journal, 

 vol. iii. no. 2, page 192, some remarks on the coloration 

 of the soft parts of the Narina Trogon by Mr. C. G. 

 Davies. I should like to state that on 7th September, 

 1903, I shot two Trogons in a kloof on the farm Suns- 

 klip, adjoining this farm. I watched them for two days 

 before getting a shot at them, and noticed their slow and 

 dipping flight, also that gaily coloured as the bird is, it was 

 most difficult to see, either at rest or in flight. No note was 

 heard from either bird. They kept well aloft in the trees of 

 the kloof, seeming to prefer dead branches to settle upon. 

 The one is now in the S. A. Museum, and is the Narina 

 Trogon that Sclater states he got from Sabi Dst. of Lyden- 

 burg, as I sent him the skin. The soft parts are accurately 

 described by Mr. Davies, and agree exactly with my notes on 

 them. I thought perhaps it would be well just to verify 

 Mr. Davies's observations, as he states Stark and Sclater give 

 soft parts wrongly. The stomachs contained large grass- 

 ho])pers and beetles, the elytra of which were very roughly 

 broken, one piece being quite ^'' in diameter. The Narina 

 has never been seen before or since, either by myself or 

 natives, who do not know the bird. 



P. O. Sabi, 2. 4. 1910. J. C. Ingle, F.Z.S. 



7. Marked Hawk in Senekal, O.F.S. — It has been 

 reported to us by Mr. 0. P. van der Merwe, the Assistant 

 Biologist of the Orange Free State, that a Hawk (pro- 

 bably a Sparrow- Hawk, judging from the fe;ither) was 

 shot at Senekal, O.F.S., by J. Grobbelaar, of the Farm 



