Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia. 71 
colour, blotched and spotted with greenish olive (fading later 
to olive-brown) and grey, chiefly at the larger end, which, 
in one egg, was surrounded by a distinct zone. I had found 
nests with young birds a few weeks previously. The female 
was shy, leaving the nest at once on being approached, 
and flying off to some little distance, where she commenced 
her usual evolutions quite unconcernedly, probably to divert 
Text-fig. 5, 
Nest of Zrochocercus albonotatus. 
attention from the nest. A crop examined contained small 
beetles and flies. 
[Apparently new to the South-African Avifauna.—P.L.S.] 
83. TERPSIPHONE PLUMBeIcerS. Lead-headed Paradise 
Flycatcher. 
Tchitrea plumbeiceps Reichen. Vog. Afr. 11. p. 510. 
Till recently I had considered this species to be 7. per- 
