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affluent of the Lower Limpopo. The first was catching 
insects in the upper branches of a high mimosa tree, and 
from its flight he mistook it for a Cuckoo. Its crop contained 
caterpillars and the shell of a green locust. The other 
specimen he saw at the same spot a few days later, and 
observes that he never met with the species elsewhere. 
Mr. Swynnerton finds it by no means uncommon in Gaza- 
land and states that it is occasionally seen on the outskirts of 
Chirinda. From Mashonaland Mr. Guy Marshall sent me a 
pair of these birds, for the British Museum, with the following 
remarks: “ Not a very common species, solitary and retiring 
in its habits. When startled its flight is fairly swift and 
rather swooping; but when hopping among the branches of 
a tree or descending to the ground after insects it falls as 
softly as a snowflake. These birds principally frequent the 
larger trees in the open forests and I have observed them 
not only near Salisbury but also at the Hanyani and 
Umfuli Rivers. They are very quiet birds and I have only 
occasionally heard them give utterance to a long, soft but 
high-pitched whistle. The sexes are alike, and their food 
consists chiefly of grasshoppers and coleoptera.’ At the 
middle course of the Zambesi it is, according to M. Foa, 
known to the natives as the ‘“ Kouméniamenia.’ From 
between the Zambesi and the Equator these Cuckoo-Shrikes 
have been recorded from many different places in Nyasaland 
and Uganda, and to the north of the Line eastward from 
the Nile from some dozen localities. Heuglin obtained the 
type of his Graucalus frenatus in the country between Djur 
and Bongo, where it is abundant in the forests and known 
to the natives as the “Avuanda.”’ It is also frequently found in 
the lowlands of Abyssinia, and Heuglin remarks that it mostly 
frequents the thick foliaged trees, but will at times alight 
on the backs of buffaloes and elephants, and that the male’s 
