72 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
spicillata, and had only taken the trouble to secure one skin, 
but it proves to belong to 7. plumbeiceps, which Mr. W. L. 
Sclater has just identified for My. Stanley. Probably both 
forms will be found to occur here. It is a playful little 
Flycatcher, and may be found throughout the district, but 
appears to be especially common at Mafusi and in the Jihu, 
where, during a recent visit, I found it going about in family- 
parties. It is also sometimes found on the outskirts of 
Chirinda. The tail-feathers of the Paradise Flycatcher used 
to be reserved for the exclusive use of Gungunyana’s wives. 
[ Apparently new to the Fauna of South Africa.—P. L. S.] 
84. Dicrurus arer. Fork-tailed Drongo. 
This is the “ Roek-Vogel” (Smoke-bird) of the local 
Dutch, so called on account of its being always to the fore, 
in flocks of five, eight, or even eleven individuals, when 
a grass-fire is in progress, dashing backwards and forwards 
through the smoke after the fleeing insects. The crops of 
two shot in June, while thus engaged, contained a wasp, 
a cicada, and numerous beetles and flies. The habit of this 
species, already referred to, of assuming the leadership of the 
flocks of small birds so often met with in the open bush, has 
led to its being called by the natives “ Induna yezinyone”— 
the General of the Birds. It will attack all owls, hawks, and 
snakes which approach its charge; and even when one of 
them has seized its prey the Drongo will frequently succeed 
in making it drop the captive, by swooping down on the 
back of the marauder, and generally harassing and blinding 
it. According to the natives, a Drongo is never bitten by 
a snake, owing to its confining its attack to the back of 
the head and carefully avoiding the fangs. It is said also to 
bait—but at a more respectful distance—lions, leopards, and 
other wild animals, betraying their presence to the natives 
by its excited cries and actions. 
85. Dicrurus Lupwier. Square-tailed Drongo. 
This is the common Drongo of the forest-patches, to which 
it confines itself. It possesses to the full the bold habits and 
