20 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



body is often iudulged iu, which makes one think that the bird 

 intends pitching. On lauding^ the legs are thro^yn forward 

 with the wings outspread, and the latter are then slowly and 

 carefully folded. I have never heard the bird call or cry. 

 The food consists of lizards, grasshoppers, locusts, and the 

 young of birds and mammals. Owing to its destroying 

 quantities of young Francolius and hares, protection has 

 recently been withdrawn from it in the Transvaal. On 

 seizing any prey the crest is raised and the Mings also 

 slightly elevated. 



The soft parts of the adult are: — J. Irides dark raw 

 sienna ; eyelid greenish yellow ; basal half of loAver mandible 

 and cere lemon-chrome ; apical portion of lower mandible 

 and whole of upper pearly white; extreme base of lower 

 mandible, lores, and bare skin above, below, and behind the 

 eye bright orange-chrome; legs and toes pale flesh-coloured, 

 ? . Irides pale silvery brown with dark streaks ; eyelid 

 greenish yellow ; basal half of lower mandible and cere to 

 gape pale lemon-chrome ; apical portion of lower mandible 

 and whole of upper pearly white, slightly paler than in the 

 male ; lores orange-chrome ; bare skin immediately above 

 eye bright lemon-chrome; rest of bare skin above, below, 

 and behind the eye dull crimson flesh-coloured ; legs and 

 toes as in the male.] 



567. Phalacrocorax africanus. 



N. Illovo, Nov. (1 c? juv.) ; Z. Ngoye Hills, Oct. (1). 



[The River Cormorant has been noticed in every locality 

 up the eastern side of South Africa, and was found 

 especially plentiful in Zululand and Natal and on the rivers 

 in the Tete district. It generally frequents open sheets of 

 reed-fringed water and the sand-locked estuaries of the 

 rivers, but I have also seen it commonly in the deep-shaded 

 rivers and streams of the Ngoye Hills. The cry is clear and 

 loud, and cannot be mistaken for that of any other bird 

 except perhaps F. petersi. AThen going to and from the 

 feeding-grounds, parties sometimes travel in a V-formation.] 



568. Plotus rufus. 



Z. Umfolosi Station, Aug. (]). 

 [" Phishamanzi'^ of the Zulus. 



