262 Mr. T. Ayres on the Ornithology of Transvaal. 
Crryie rupis (Linn.). Black-and-white Kingfisher. 
Male and female shot near Potchefstroom, 22nd Mareh. 
Trides dusky ; tarsi and feet black. 
[The male has a wing-measurement of 5°5 inches, and the 
bill from the forehead to the tip measures 2°3; the corre- 
sponding measurements in the female are 5:7 and 2:3. The 
male has two black pectoral bands, and the female but one, 
which is interrupted in the centre by a white space measur- 
ing ‘7 in width ; the white nuchal collar and the white edgings 
to the feathers of the upper surface are rather broader in the 
female than in the male.—J. H. G.] 
Curysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.). Didric Cuckoo. 
Female, immature in change, shot llth January. Irides 
light tawny brown ; bill dark olivaceous, but the base of the 
lower mandible orange-red. 
[This specimen has in great measure assumed on the upper 
part the adult plumage which I described in ‘ The Ibis’ for 
1879, p. 298; but the primaries and all the rectrices, except 
the external pair, are transversely barred with rufous; all 
the under surface is similarly, but less regularly, barred with 
alternate markings of white and dark metallic green. 
The description of the female given in Sharpe’s edition of 
Layard, p. 156, is evidently taken from a young bird.— 
J, Jal, Es] 
Myrmecocicnia Frormictvora (Vieill.). Southern Ant- 
eating Wheatear. 
This species is apparently increasing in numbers in the 
Potchefstroom district, where there are plenty of good breed- 
ing-places for them in the walls of the holes which the ant- 
bears burrow all over the country: the bird bores a hole 
inside these burrows and there nests; but I have not yet 
taken the eggs, as they are not easily got at without a spade. 
Saxrcona GALToNI (Strickl.). Familiar Wheatear. 
This Wheatear is very scarce in the Potchefstroom dis- 
trict, though plentiful about Rustenburg. The specimen sent 
was a solitary bird, shot amongst mimosa-scrub about fifteen 
miles from Potchefstroom. 
