flie Ti'KusvaaJ Mv,<eu)n from Boror. 33 



These specimens arc smaller than al^out a dozen from the 

 Transvaal and also differ slightly in the adults in having 

 narrow white tips to the central pair o£ tail-feathers and 

 more white on the outermost, and in the black of the head, 

 neck, and throat being duller. The immature specimen is 

 grey, with the primaries, tail-feathers, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts as in the adults, but the secondaries, primary-coverts, 

 and bastard wing tipped with white, the first primary with a 

 white band across the inner web and the central tail-feathers 

 without the white tips. The beak also differs in being dark 

 brown, the apex yellowish and the genys orange. 



The habits of this species are very similar to the foregoing 

 and it was equally common. I found a nest ati Buruma on 

 11th October containing five eggs too much incubated to bo 

 preserved. The nest was a shallow basin-shaped structure of 

 roots, cleverly bound together and plastered outside with 

 cobwebs so as to exactly match the white bark of the tree in 

 which it was placed. The interior was so small that it is diffi- 

 cult to conceive how the young would have found room in it 

 as they grew up. It was situated on a horizontal branch 

 about twelve feet from the ground, close to a fork, and had I 

 not seen the hen get up from it I should certainly not have 

 noticed anything unusual in the a])pearance of the branch. 

 The eggs were abstracted by tying the lid of a small tin to 

 the end of a long stick and carefully scooping them out, as 

 the bough was not strong enough to bear my wiMght. The 

 eggs were of a [)alo greenish ground-colour blotched and 

 spotted with slate, pur[)le, and various shades of brown, and 

 almost round in slia[)e. 



NiLAUS NKiFlITEMPORALlS, Rchw. W. 1122. (1 M., 1 F., 



1 juv.) liesideut. 



M. : I. red-brown ; 15. bhick, base lower uiaiidiblc hoi-ii ; 

 VOL. viii. 3 



