162 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 



" Ploceus aurifrons, Temni., PI. Col. 175, 176 (c?, ? )• 



" icterocephalus, Swains., Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 189. 



" capensis, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afi%, Aves, pi. 66, fig. 2 



{sat. accur.). 



" Hyphantornis capensis et H. aurifrons, Bonap., Consp.Av. 

 i. p. 440; Keichb., Singvogel, figg. 315, 318; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 179. nos. 355, 356." 



EuPLECTEs XANTHOMELAS, Riipp. Northern Black-and-yellow 

 Finch. 



EsTRELDA cucuLLATA (Swains.). Hoodcd Finch. 



EsTRELDA CARMELiTA, Hartl. Carmelite Finch. 



The occurrence in Natal of these three species, which are not 

 included in Mr. Layard's ' Catalogue,^ is recorded in the present 

 volume of 'The Ibis ' (pp. 46 and 51). 



384. EsTRELDA MELANOGENYS, Suudcv. 



386. EsTRELDA DUFRESNii (VieilL). Dufresne's Finch. 



Mr. Layard gives these as distinct species ; but, according to 

 Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. Westafr. p. 142), the former is only a 

 synonym of the latter. 



390. EsTRELDA POLYZONA (Tcmm.). Little Bar-breasted 

 Finch. 



395. EsTRELDA suBFLAVA (Vieill.). Sanguineous Finch. 



As Mr. Layard does not appear to have personally met with 

 either of these birds in South Africa, I may refer to Mr. Ayres's 

 statement (Ibis, 1863, p. 329) that the first is found in Natal 

 " from May to August or thereabouts," and, as regards the 

 second (which I have included in my sixth additional list of 

 Natal birds under the synonym of E. sanguinolenta, Temm,), 

 that he once met with a flight of them " near Maritzburg in 

 July" (Ibis, 1864, p. 352). 



458. BucoRvus abyssinicus (Gm.). Abyssinian Hornbill. 



The observations of Mr. Ayres as to the food of this species, 

 and also as to its mode of attacking and dispatching snakes, 

 have been placed on record (Ibis, 1861, p. 132, and 1862, p. 37), 

 and are, I think, very curious as illustrating the voracious and 

 indiscriminate appetite of this remarkable bird. 



