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ino':s, and is oft_Mi verv hard to find, as it is usually built 

 very closely into the fork oE a branch or on the top of a 

 branch, where it is firmly fixed with cobwebs. 



Breedino- season October to February. 



It lays two eggs of a bluish-white colour spotted and 

 blotched with brown. 



Dusky Flycatcher (^Aheonax adusta). — Common in a 

 few localities, especially in plantations. 

 I have not found the nests. 



Yellow-throated Honey-Guide {Indicator major). — 

 Common in the bushveld and bushy kloofs. While living 

 in Hankey I saw a Honey-Gruide (^Indicator viajor) make a 

 dart at a hole in the riv er-bank, and then fly away : it went 

 through this perform.-mce several times, and at last went 

 into the hole, but I was called away before it came out. 

 The next day I went there and opened up the hole, and 

 found three eggs of Spreo hicolor and one smaller white egg 

 which 1 took to be the egg of the Honey-Guide. The year 

 before that I found a simihir egg in a nest of Spreo hicolor 

 about three feet from the one just mentioned, so I wrote to 

 Mr. R. H, Iv}^,' in Grahamstown, giving him the particulars, 

 and he wrote saying jt must be one of the Honey-Guides. 



Bronze Cuckoo {Clirysncoccjjx Jdaa.si). — Tery common 

 along the lower p;irt of Gamtoos River. I could not find 

 any of their eggs. 



DiDRic Cuckoo (^Chrysococcyx cuprevs). — Very common 

 along the lower part of Gamtoos River. I could not find 

 any of their eggs. 



FisKAL Shrike (Lanius coUaris). — Very common. It 

 builds a cup- shaped nest of grass, weeds, rags, twine, etc., 

 lined with wool and feathers, in a biish or tree. On Novem- 

 ber 10th, 1914, I found a nest at the end of a bushy kloof, 

 which contained three eggs of the usual size and another 

 one nearly half as large again, but of the same colour. 

 These eggs are in my collection. 



