70 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
brown, pale brown, and pale violet-grey spots and blotches 
round the larger end, a few of the pale brown blotches 
appearing also on other portions of the egg, which mea- 
sured 19 by 145 mm. ‘The sitting bird allowed me to 
watch her from within two yards of the nest, which was 
placed in the fork of a small sapling about three feet from 
the ground; it was neatly made of soft grass-blades and 
fibres, bound with abundant spiders’ webs into a compact 
though thin and shallow cup, and thickly lined with the finest 
of dry branching stems, probably from some low-growing 
forest-plant. The outside of the nest was ornamented with 
scraps of blue-green lichen affixed by means of web. 
81. Pacnyprora moxiror. White-flanked Flycatcher. 
The common Pachyprora of the open woods ; it does not 
occur in the forest. The stomachs examined contained 
small beetles and flies, ants, large diptera, coleopterous larvee, 
and a wasp. 
82. TRocHocercus AaLBonoratus. White-marked Fly- 
catcher, 
Trochocercus albonotatus Shelley, B. Afr. 1. p. 99. 
These birds are very plentiful in Chirinda, where it is pretty 
to watch a pair of them at play, tumbling about in the air, 
spreading their tails to their fullest extent, and uttering 
a weak but pleasing note. The nest (text-fig. 5) bears some 
resemblance to that of Pachyprora capensis, but, apart from 
the difference in the material employed, the walls are some- 
what thicker aud more rounded and the cup half as deep again. 
It is usually placed in the fork of some low shrub or sapling, 
two or three feet from the ground, and consists of a perfectly 
neat and symmetrical cup of soft green moss bound into a 
fine felt by means of spiders’ webs and decorated outside 
with scraps of silvery lichen, the mottled appearance thus 
imparted to it combining with its small size to render it 
inconspicuous; it is lined within with lichen and a few 
stems of “false maiden-hair.” I have only once secured 
the eggs—on December 28th—two in number, of the same 
size as those of Pachyprora dimorpha and of a dirty-white 
