494 iSh: G. L. Bates on the 



]My adult spceimeu is a lighter-coloured bird tlian ariV in 

 the British Museum, both above and beneath, and has only 

 a very few faint bars on some of the breast-feathers : doubt- 

 less it is an old bird. The difference between this species 

 aud A. castanilius, both in size and in colouring, is very 

 jnarked. A. toussenelii is a lighter grey bird, when adult, than 

 the other, besides differing conspicuously in the colouring of 

 the under parts. 



No. 4S99 was said by Nkolo, mIio shot it, to have been 

 watching the little birds which had gathered to feed about 

 an army of driver-ants. As its crop contained a recently 

 eaten frog, it is probable that its object was not so much to 

 catch little birds as to secure the frogs that the drivers 

 routed out of their hiding-places. 



No. 3268 had an old palm-stalk arrow, or part of one, 

 sticking in its forehead near the left eye, so that when the 

 boy who shot it saw it on the perch it looked as if it had a 

 horn. The eye, which had been ])ierced by the arrow, had 

 shrivelled up, and the wound had healed. The bird was 

 somewhat fat, even though it had long been Avounded and 

 carried an arrow in its head. 



Baza cuculoides. 



lleichenow, V. A. i. p. 618. 



No. 2235. S ad. Bitye, R. Ja, Feb. 1907. Stomach 

 full of grasshoppers, beetles, white grubs, &c. Shot in the 

 forest. 



No. 3624. ? imm. Bitye, 11. Ja, April 1909. Stomach 

 contained sixteen undigested grasshoppers. Iris, feet, and 

 cere yellow ; bill and claws black. 



Falco surbuteo. 



lleichenow,, V. A. i. p. 628. 



No. 3134. ? imm. Bitye, U. Ja, Oct. 19, 1908. 



This example, the only one that I have seen, had the 

 plumage much worn, with the exception of two wing-quills 

 on one side and one on the other, which looked new. It 

 was brought in alive and unhurt by a man who said that he 



