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small flocks; and their peculiar cry, something like the mewing of 
a cat, often betrays their presence. They often raise and lower the 
crest, and are not very easy to see by reason of their colour.” In 
the Zambesi it is, according to Dr. Kirk, “rather a common bird in 
wooded country at the foot of mountains; named by the natives, 
from its cry, ‘ Kwe-kwe,’ which it utters while perched on the top of 
some of the higher trees.” 
Mr. Andersson gives the following account of the species :—“ This 
is one of the commonest birds in Damara Land; and it is also found 
abundantly in the Lake-regions and at the River Okavango. It 
is partial to localities abounding in large trees ; and when prominently 
perched, with crest erect, it is not unlike a gigantic Coly ; it also 
climbs and flies like the Colies, which it strongly resembles in its 
general habits. It is usually found in small flocks and feeds on berries 
and seeds, especially that of a mistletoe and of other parasitical plants, 
and also on fruits, young shoots and insects. The Damaras call this 
species ‘ Ongoro-oroquena,’ from the extraordinary and almost human 
ery with which it frequently startles the traveller who is passing near 
its perch. It is sometimes very easy to approach these birds, whilst 
at other times they are so shy that they will.defy the utmost exertions 
which may be made to obtain them. On January 5th, 1867, I 
obtained three eggs of this species, of a dull bluish-white colour, 
at Omapju, from a boy, who told me that the nest which con- 
tained them was composed of sticks roughly put together, and 
situated in a tree at some distance from the ground; and, on March 
1st, I met with a nest in Ondonga placed in a tree, but at no great 
elevation, which also contained three eggs, but much incubated.” 
According to Mr. Monteiro, the bird is also very abundant at 
Benguela and Mossamedes, and it has been procured by Anchieta in 
both these districts, particularly on the Rio Chimba and at Huilla in 
the latter country: at the last named place it is called ‘ Quele’ from 
its cry. It extends its range into Angola proper, whence specimens 
exist in the Lisbon Museum, and whence we have seen examples shot 
by Heer Sala at Galungo. 
The following letter was addressed to the author by Dr. Exton :— 
“T beg leave to call your attention to a question raised by Mr. P. L. 
Sclater, of the Zoological Society of London, relative to the 
crest of Schizorhis. In a paper by Mr. Sclater, in No. 1, of the 
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