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Newcastle, and it was also shot near Durban. It was usually 

 found in small parties. " Legs and feet lavender" (B). 



Parus niger (Vieil.), Southern Black-and-White Titmouse. — 

 A small party seen in a bushy "donga" at Camperdown, near 

 Pietermaritzburg, and one specimen, female, obtained by Keid, on 

 the 15th December. 



Pachyprora capensis (Linn.), Cape Flycatcher. — Universally 

 distributed and common in every wooded kloof we explored. 

 Specimens were obtained from May to August at Newcastle, and 

 in August also at Durban. Iris deep golden or orange -yellow. 

 These birds are of a very affectionate disposition, and on one 

 occasion when Butler shot a male bird, the female, instead of 

 being driven away by the report of the gun, flew down with it as 

 it fell lifeless to the ground, and kept hopping around it, evincing 

 the greatest anxiety and refusing to leave it till its mortal 

 remains were consigned to the collecting-basket. 



Pachyprora molitor (Hahn & Kiister), White-flanked Fly- 

 catcher. — Not so common as the preceding. Reid obtained a 

 male specimen at Lady smith on the 21st August, seeing several 

 others, and another male at Colenso on the 21st November. We 

 did not meet with this species in the kloofs of the Drakensberg, 

 near Newcastle. 



Muscicapa grisola (Linn.), European Spotted Flycatcher. — 

 Several were seen by Reid in the bush at Blaauw Krautz River, 

 between Colenso and Estcourt, and one obtained on the 23rd 

 November. 



Stenostira scita (Vieil.), Fairy Flycatcher. — This is the 

 Platysteira longipes, Swains., of Layard's first edition of the 

 ' Birds of South Africa.' We met with it frequently in the kloofs 

 at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains in July, August, and 

 September, and obtained several specimens. 



Parisoma subcaruleam (Vieil.), Red-vented Flycatcher. — "One 

 shot by Lieut. Harkness, of the Welsh Regiment, near Ladysmith, 

 on the 18th August, and given to me" (R). 



Parisoma layardi (Hartl.), Layard's Flycatcher. — An immature 

 male obtained by Reid, in the thick bush between Durban and 

 the Umgeni River, on the 26th December. 



Terpsiphone persjncillata (Swains.), South African Paradise 

 Flycatcher. — Obtained by Butler in the Drakensberg kloofs, near 

 Newcastle, in October. Very common towards the coast, Butler 



