284 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
plumage so far as the breast was concerned, but with the 
blue eyebrow and carmine iris, and measuring 7 inches in 
the flesh. This is a resident species. 
105. Mer tirropHacus BULLOCKoIDEs. White-fronted Bee- 
eater. 
I came across this bird in some numbers in November last, 
on the banks of the Lower Umswirezi, where it was probably 
breeding. The crop of a male which I secured contained 
only acicada. Legs and feet leaden grey. 
106. CEeryLe Rupts. Pied Kingfisher. 
This Kingfisher is occasionally found on the larger rivers, 
and is probably not uncommon throughout the district. I 
noticed three or four on the Chinyika and Lower Umswirezi. 
107. Coryruornis cyanostigMa. Malachite Kingfisher. 
At the moment of writing one of these charming little 
Kingfishers, in immature plumage, has been brought to 
me by a Kafir, who trapped it on the headwaters of the 
Umswirezi. 
108. Hatcyon ortentatis. Peters’s Kingfisher. 
This is the common Kingfisher of the kloofs and open 
woods, where it is really abundant; it may frequently be seen 
perched on a horizontal branch, generally low in the tree, 
and using it asa base of operations. ‘The stomachs examined 
contained beetles, usually of considerable size, grasshoppers, 
Melalonthid larvee, large crickets, a locust, a crab, and bones 
of a lizard. 
109. Haucyon cueLicuti. Striped Kingfisher. 
I have only secured a single specimen of this bird in the 
district, trapped in the open woods on the 11th of February. 
110. Haucyon cyanoteucus. Angola Kingfisher. 
I watched an individual of this species, at close quarters, for 
a short time, when encamped on the Umsesi River (Mafusi’s 
country), at the end of May 1900. My notebook contains 
merely a description of the bird, unfortunately without any 
