310 On the Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia. 
173. Numipa coronata. Crowned Guinea-fowl. 
Common everywhere, though less so in the Jihu and 
the Umshanetzi foot-hills, where its place is taken by the 
following species. The natives will not eat the head of this 
bird, believing that, should they do so, any children which 
they may beget will possess a permanent bald strip through 
the cent’e of the crown, corresponding to the Guinea-fowl’s 
horn. ‘“ Tapera, tapera, tapera!’? (we’re finished, we’re 
finished, &c.) is their rendering of the call of this bird. 
174. Gutrera rpovarpi. Crested Guinea-fowl. 
I have on several occasions met with a handsome Crested 
Guinea-fow! ia the dense jungle of the Jihu and the 
Umshanetzi, where it goes about in huge flocks, but I have 
no specimen in my collection and it is about six years since 
I handled one; my impression, however, corroborated by 
natives, is that the spotted plumage is continued over the 
whole breast. According to them, there are two kinds of 
“ ndhori,’? the second, a somewhat solitary bird, distinctly 
larger than the other and with a black breast, occurring 
chiefly in the forest and the denser thickets. I have on two 
or three occasions put up Crested Guinea-fowls in Chirinda 
singly or in pairs, but always supposed them to be identical 
with the common species of the foot-hills. The call is not 
unlike that of the Common Guinea-fowl, but possesses a 
peculiar break which serves at once to distinguish it. 
175. Liwnocorax nicer. Black Crake. 
I saw several of these birds at the beginning of June 1900, 
on the water-lilies of the Amanzimhlope, a stream in 
Gunye’s country. 
176. GaLtinvuta cHLtororus. Moor-Hen. 
Observed on the Chinyika at the end of October; probably 
not uncommon on all our larger streams. 
177. Oris MELANOGASTER. Black-bellied Bustard. 
Common on the grassy hills of Northern and Southern 
Melsetter. 
