216 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



on which it is resting. The flight is uudukiting and the call 

 is a hissing " zee.'^ 



When disturbed it will sometimes perch on the tops of 

 treesj but more often flies clean away. 



The soft parts are : — Irides blood-orange ; eyelid lemon- 

 coloured ; bill sealing-wax red ; legs and toes grey-brown. 



N.B. — The iris is composed of two colours, the inner part 

 being blood-orange, with a narrow outer ring of lemon- 

 yellow.] 



6. Creatophora carunculata. 



CC. Durban Rd., Sept. (10) ; Tv. Klein Letaba, 

 Aug. (1). 



Two of the males have quite bare heads and are doubtless 

 very old birds ; in the others the amount of bare skin and 

 the development of the wattles varies a good deal and no 

 two are exactly alike. The females shew no sign of wattles 

 and have only the thin streaks and patches round the eyes 

 bare. 



[The Wattled Starling was noted from the Cape Peninsula, 

 the North-Eastern Transvaal, and the Inhambane and Beira 

 districts of the Portuguese country. It is always found in 

 flocks, often of considerable size. In habits and flight it 

 greatly resembles the European Starling, 



The soft parts are : — 



(^ , breeding. Irides hazel; bill almost like ivory ; bare 

 skin behind eye greenish, rest of pale skin lemon-yellow ; all 

 the dark skin black.] 



7. Amydrus morio. 



CC. Tokai, Feb. (1) ; Table Mt., Jan. (1); Plettenberg 

 Bay, Feb., Mch. (5) ; Knysna, Apl. (1) ; Tv. Wakkerstrooni, 

 Mch.(l); Zuurbron,May (3); Woodbush,June(3) j Turfloop, 

 Mch. (1); Z. Sibudeni, Oct. to Jan. (8). 



["Esome^^ of Zulus, " Rooi-vlerk sprew " of Colonists. 



The Red-winged Starling frequents more or less moun- 

 tainous country, and was noted from the Cape Peninsula, 

 the Knysna district, Zululand, and the South-Eastern, 

 Eastern, and North-Eastern Transvaal. It was observed both 



