28 Mr. A. Roberts oh Bii-Jk in 



a salinon-pink ground-colour, covered with bold blotches of 

 red-browu, and measures 28 X 21*3. 



CAnuMULGUS FOSSEi, [ Verr.] Ilartl. R. 012. (1 M., 1 F.) 

 Resident. 



No data recorded. (M.) W. 150 ; Tl. 120. (F.) W. 154 ; 

 Tl. 107. 



This species was very common and met with in all parts of 

 the prazo. Its churring notes were most annoying at night, 

 lasting sometimes for ten minutes without cessation and 

 tem])ting one to stop the racket with a gunshot charge. A 

 clutch of two eoos was taken at Buruma on the 8th October, 

 laid on the bare ground; they are creamy white faintly 

 clouded with bi"Ownish purple and reJ-brown, one specimen 

 with a few blood-coloured spots at the acute end, and measure 

 2(5*5 X 20 and 27'5 x 21-G respectively. 



MaCRODIPTERYX VEXILLARll'S (J. Gil.). H. OIG. August, 

 October, and November. 



No specimens were secured, l)ut several males were 

 observed near Matiwe in October and another at Muandama 

 in August, and I found an egg near Guju on 12th November. 

 I made an attempt to get the parent bird in tlie last instance 

 liy leaving the egg and returning later with the •410 shot- 

 gun, but wlien once she had been flushed from lier egg she 

 would not let me get williin range and in the end I bad to 

 return and take it without bavin"- secured her. Tins eoo- is 

 of a general salmon-pink ground-colour, clouded with ashy 

 purple, and measures 32 X 21. 



TaCHVoUNIS I'AltViS .MYUCIIROI s, Hchw. (?) . U. 1>2'.'. 



The Palm Swift was very common near the coasi and at 

 Villa Pere'ra, Itiit (Htficult to shoot on the wing. At the 

 latter place large numbers were fonnd roosting in th(> leaves 

 of a very tall indigenous palm, and a discharge amongst the 

 leaves late one evening brought down a (|uantity of feathers, 

 evidently from nests, and sev<'ral bailly moulting specimens 

 which were not i)reservod. 



