On the Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia. — 279 
black-and-white markings on the middle of the breast, 
which is mostly white in C. elliott. The scaling of the tarso- 
metatarsus in this specimen seems to differ somewhat from 
that of C. humie, the whole of the hinder portion being 
clothed with rather small reticulate scales and lacking 
the row of scutes characteristic of the other two species ; 
the tarso-metatarsus is, moreover, proportionately somewhat 
shorter.—W. R. O.-G.] 
Of the 260 species enumerated in this list, no less than 50 
are peculiar to the island of Formosa. It must, however, be 
noted that 3 of these species, viz. Munia formosana, Spizixus 
cinereicapillus, and Sphenocercus formose, are said to have 
been met with in other adjacent islands. Now of these the 
first and last-named are no doubt accidental stragglers to 
Luzon and the Babuyan Islands respectively, while with 
regard to Spizivus cinereicapillus there has probably been 
some mistake made. Either the specimen examined by 
Hartlaub did not come from Hainan (which seems most 
probable, as recent expeditions to that island have failed to 
meet with any species of Spizivus), or it may have been 
wrongly identified with S. cinereicapillus. 
X11.—On the Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia,— 
Part Il. By C. F. M. Swynnerron *. 
92. Urupra arricana. South-African Hoopoe. 
I found these birds fairly plentiful but somewhat locally 
distributed ; they prefer the thorn-and-grass-jungle type 
of country, and were common at Mafusi on my arrival 
there at the end of July 1900, when they were going about 
in pairs. In September, as a rule, they are very much in 
evidence, and their calls may be heard in every direction— 
whether as the result of a partial migration or of the fact 
that they are then less shy than at other times, I am unable 
to say: the natives to whom I have spoken on the subject 
* Concluded from p. 74. 
