ol2 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



lU'PiiAGA AKUicAXA. [ Sac-ii vaf .] 



Reich. '\'. A. ii. p. 6G(J. 



No. 4-209. S • BiUe, June 11)10. Tbe tongue, uliicli is 

 thick and fleshy, and the inside of the mouth are red. Tlie 

 stomach contained several ticks, mostly cut in two, and a 

 large fly. The edges of the bill, or tomia, are very sharp. 



Iskolo, who shot tiie hi id, one of a pair sitting on a dead 

 tree, saw no sign of large animals near. I had long heard 

 of the Sae-nyat (a l^ulu name whicii is almost equivalent to 

 "Ox-peckei-,*^ "nyat'" meaning Bufl'alo), hut I never obtained 

 an example before. 



Ox YCHOGN AT II us H A K I'l.A UI51. 



lleich. V. A. ii. |). TO'i. 



No. 3137. $ (shewing signs of incubatiun). Bityc, Oct. 

 1908. The stomach contained some dry seeds. 



Though this species is rare, the condition of the specimen 

 mentioned shews that it breeds about Bitye. It was the 

 only one obtained, but others were seen in tall trees near 

 my house and several times shot at but not killed. 



Lamphocolius splexdidus. [Kwang.] (Plate IX. figs. 7, 

 1 1, eggs.) 



Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. [). 2ij\: 



LamprucaVms (jluucovii'cns Sharpe, I his, 1908^ p. 357. 



Lamprucolius splendidus (jlaucovirens Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 37. 



A young bird just ahle to fly is noted as having the 

 metallic colours of the plumage nearly as bright as in the 

 adult. No. 4118, somewhat younger, was taken from a 

 knot-hole in a dead tree ; it had the inside of the mouth 

 flesh-coloured tinged with yellow, and the tongue dark, he- 

 coming black at the base. Two younger nestlings, also taken 

 from a knot-hole in a tree, had the mouth inside of a yellowish 

 flesh-colour. All had a conspicuous white mouth-flange or 

 gape-margin. All these young birds and two clutches of 

 eggs were found in the months of August, Septemher, and 

 October. 



No. 4438, a female with a very marked brood-spot, was 

 shot by Nkolo just after it had flown out of its hole in a tree. 



