292 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



S.A. O. Union, v. p. 30) in the neiglibourhood of Beira^ but 

 it appears to be a rare species there. 



It was first described by Peters from Mozambique, and 

 this is its most southern limit hitherto ; it goes north to 

 Lamu in British East Africa. 



[I have only once seen this species, when a flock of six 

 individuals were observed in the tops of some trees in a strip 

 of forest near the Masambeti Stream. In cry and habits it 

 resembles S. tricolor, and it was only when I picked up the 

 specimen shot that 1 discovered it was different. I did not 

 again see the birds, although the locality was passed through 

 on most days. 



The soft parts are : — 



Irides bright yellow, with a narrow outer ring of blood- 

 orange ; wattles round eye dark glossy slate-coloured, bare 

 skin behind whitish ; bill dark tomato-red, slightly yellow at 

 tip ; legs and toes orange, nails horny. The blood-orange 

 ring on the outer edge of the iris is not noticeable till the 

 lid is turned back.] 



211. Prionops talacoma. 



Z. Ntambana Hills, Aug. (1) ; Tv. Woodbush, May, 

 June (12) ; Klein Letaba, Aug. (3) ; Legogot, Apl. (2) ; 

 P. Coguno, June, Aug., Sept. (6) ; Beira, Feb. (4) ; Tete, 

 Aug., Sept. (5). 



["Ipelufu^^ of Zulus. 



The Helmet-Shrike was first seen in Zululand, where a 

 small party of eight individuals was observed in a grove of 

 "fever"-' trees at the southern end of the Ntambana Hills; 

 it was not met with south or west of that locality. I have 

 since noted it from the Eastern and North-Eastern Transvaal 

 jimd the Inhambane, Beira, and Tete districts of Portuguese 

 East Africa. 



This species is undoubtedly migratory to a certain extent ; 

 and I at first thought that it was only a winter visitor to 

 South Africa, as all the examples that I have taken or seen 

 have been met with between April and September ; but I 

 find that there are five specimens in the British Museum 



