62 Mr. F. V. Kirby on Birds of the Boror District. 



branches in their search for insect food. Once T saw tliree 

 or four on some newly burnt ground — round a still flan.ing 

 tree-trunk in fact — in company with some Glossy Starlings. 



29. Anthreptes coLLARis* (VieilL). Little Collared Sun- 

 bird. 



1 only met this bird in the thick bush along the Masam- 

 balanda River near Malava. They consorted in parties of 

 ten or twelve, and were most partial to the bush above- 

 mentioned, amongst the branches of which they constantly 

 moved to and fro, in a restless fashion. C. aniethystina and 

 C. gutluralis were always found about these bushes, and I 

 noticed that when alarmed, the C. gutturalis flew right 

 away, C. amethystina sought the topmost bough of a neigh- 

 bouring tree, but the little Anthreptes never flew high, seldom 

 perching over ten or twelve feet from the ground. 



30, 31, 32. CiNNYRIS GUTTURALIS, AMETHYSTINUS, and AFER. 



All these sjiecies of vSun-birds were common on the Masam- 

 balanda River and the spruit around Malava. They 

 appeared to feed almost entirely on the insects around, and 

 the pieces extracted from pink aloe flowers and a brilliant 

 flowering bush, bearing much resemblance to the " plum- 

 bago '^ of C^:>e Colony. Both these grew in great 

 luxuriance in the district. 



33. Parus NIGER, Vieill. Black Tit. 

 Seen near Marielas Kraal on the Mungeesi. 



34. Heliolais kirbyi, Haagner. Boror Redwing Grass- 

 Warbler. 



Fairly numerous in Povarello district, where they 

 frequented open marshy ground covered with long grass. 

 Their call note is rather loud. When flushed they always 

 flew to one of the few trees scattered at intervals in the open 

 grass-land. I should judge that they were amongst the 

 earliest, if not quite the earliest, birds to be on the move in 

 the morning. 



* [This should perhaps be A. hypodilus, She!., but severnl ornitho- 

 logists diflfer on thi& point. — Edd.] 



