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but woods of Brachystegia and other trees of similar habit, 
with a bird-life much resembling that of Salisbury, are not 
infrequent. These woods attain their greatest development, 
so far at least as the high veld is concerned, on the hills of 
Chikore, which separate Chirinda from the Sabi valley, and 
in portions of the Jihu and the Busi-Umshanetzi country. 
Patches of splendid virgin-forest (text-fig. 1), consisting of 
trees, mostly evergreen, of great height and girth, which 
Text-fig. 1. 
Tropical Forest of Chirinda. 
shade a dense undergrowth of shrubs and saplings, are 
scattered throughout the district, the most notable forest 
being that of Chirinda. These areas, in common with the 
wooded kloofs, supply a limited, but unusually interesting, 
list of birds peculiar to themselves, including, amongst others, 
Criniger milanjensis and Buceros cristatus, both common 
species. Last, but, to the ornithologist, by no means least 
