ORIOLUS NOTATUS 9 



species is more common than in Damaraland proper. The 

 young birds are easily obtained, but the old are excessively 

 shy and difficult to procure, as they always perch on the 

 most elevated and conspicuous trees and retire into the 

 densest parts of tangled brakes and thickets on the least 

 approach of danger." 



In the country between the Limpopo and Zambesi Eivers, 

 Holub obtained the species at the Pandamatinka Eiver to 

 the south of the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi ; Jameson 

 and Ayres procured a specimen at the Ganyani Eiver and 

 record it as " shy, but not uncommon in Mashonaland." 

 Mr. Guy Marshall writes from Mashonaland: "Not uncommon 

 in the suminer months, arriving about October. It is solitary 

 in its habits, except for a short time after its arrival, when 

 it remains in small flocks." He further remarks: "0. notatus 

 undoubtedly breeds in Mashonaland, and young birds with 

 mottled breasts are fairly plentiful during January and 

 February." 



The type of the species was discovered by Dr. Peters at 

 Tete on the Zambesi, and there is one of Sir John Kirk's 

 specimens from the same locality in the British Museum. 

 From further up the Zambesi, Mr. Boyd Alexander writes : 

 " Scattered individuals observed for the first time at Zumbo 

 on December 12, frequenting the thick woods, and in company 

 now and again with young birds. The adults were then in 

 a moulting condition and were difficult to approach, their 

 clear whistling note being more often heard." In this 

 neighbourhood, according to M. Foa, it is known as the 

 "Kondiomo" (Oust. Bull. Mus. 1898, p. 60). The species 

 is abundant and very generally distributed over Nyasaland, 

 and, according to General W. H. Manning, it is called by 

 the natives of Angoniland the " Hisundambawala." 



It is apparently equally plentiful throughout German East 



