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BIRD -PARASITES 



chest ; sides of the body barred with black. The female 

 has the head and back of neck brownish; the green 

 back barred with pale reddish-brown; below buffish- 

 white barred with narrow lines of dark brown. 



In South Africa this bird is a " partial migrant " in some 

 districts, a resident in others. It may also be an African 



FIG. 118. Young Bronze Cuckoo in Sunbird's nest. 



migrant, some going to Central or Northern Africa to 

 spend our winter months. We procured specimens in 

 Orahamstown in June and July the heart of winter, 

 L. E. Taylor in Barberton, in June, 1905, and C. G. 

 Davies, of the Cape Mounted Rifles, informs us that it is 

 practically a resident in Pondoland. It is parasitic upon 



