56 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



the Inliaiiibarie distnct, Beira flats, and Tete, besides the 

 Umfolosi Flats, whence specimens were obtained. I have 

 only seen it in pairs, and it is generally fonnd frequenting 

 more or less open places where the grass has been burnt off. 

 The flight is somewhat erratic, and it usually flies some 

 two hundred yards, when it settles and runs; occasionally, 

 however, it goes right away. On being flushed it utters 

 a single sharp note several times repeated. On the veld 

 it can be easily distinguished from C. rufus, not only by 

 its smaller size, but by the rufous and black on the belly, 

 which can l)e seen for a considerable distance when the bird 

 is facing the observer.] 



707. RlIINOPTILUS AFRICANUS. 



CC. Klipfontein, Apl. (1). 



[Tliis Courser is apparently always found in dry desert 

 country, as I have observed it only in Namaqualand since 

 the termination of the Deelfontein trip. Z^ven in 

 Namaqualand very few were seen.] 



709. Rhinoptilus chalcopterus. 



P. Tambarara, May 27 (1). 



[I have only twice noted this Courser — once in Beira 

 Harbour, and when the specimen was taken in Gorongoza. 

 This was put up on the main road in open forest country ; 

 it was at first observed running up the road, and on being 

 approached rose and was shot. In flight it is very similar to 

 Stephanibyx coronatus, and might by a casual observer be 

 overlooked for that species. 



The soft parts are : — Jrides brown ; eyelid dark yellow ; 

 base of bill and legs dark coral-red.] 



712. Galactochrysea emini. 



Claude Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, p. 93. 



P. Tete, Sept. 16 (1 ? ). 



This bird was previously obtained on the Zambesi by Boyd 

 Alexander ; he procured examples at Mesanangwe and 

 Zumbo in 1898. 



[The only specimen sent was shot silting at the edge of 

 the water on a sand-bank in the middle of the Mazoe liivcr, 



