910 MU. A. LOVERIDGIS : NOTES ON 



BUCEUOTID^. 



, LopHOCEiios JAOKSONi 0,-Grant. 



The Wazigoor call Jackson's Honibill " Kwenabe," wbicli 

 rnay be specific, ns tbe}' call Bycanistes '" Ilondobondo " and 

 Bttc07'vus " Mkinga.'' They eat this Lophoceros. Two males 

 were sbot at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m., and tbeii' stomachs contained 

 large numbers ol" black ants, other insects, and seeds of fruit. A 

 female contained a stick insect, beetle elytra, seed of tbe 

 " mziga tree," and fruit of tbe " mkongo." A third male bad in 

 its stomach a stink-ant {Paltothyreiis tarsalus'^), a, black caiubid, 

 and both seeds and fruit like tbe female (Wami lliver camps, 

 27.viii.-2.ix. 21). 



Alcedinid^e. 



? Halcyon leucocephalus centralis Neum. 



A kingfisher left its buriow in a bank at the bottom of a 

 ravine. The nest-hole was just ten feet from tbe bottom of tbe 

 water-course, Avhicli is now dry. In tbe nest-hole were two 

 roundish white eggs approximately 25 mm. diameter and on tbe 

 ])oint of hatching. Two examples of this species were found 

 drowned in a water-butt ! (Kilosa, 18. xii. 20). 



CucuLiui;. 

 Centuopus suPEiiciLiosus iNTEUMEBrus Van Som. 



Catei'pillars, grasshoppers and beetles, and two species of pai'a- 

 sitic worms were found iathe stomach of a female Hackle-necked 

 Coucal (Nairobi, ix. 19). 



Centropus superciliosus loandjE C. Grant. 



Worms in a female were identified as Davainea sp. (Kilosa, 

 17.viii.20). Another coucal was heavily infected with lice. 

 One of these birds Avas also found drowned in the same butt as 

 the kingfishers mentioned in a preceding paragi'aph. 



CUCULUS CANORUS GULARIS Stepb. 



At 6 p.m. a Yellow-billed Grey Cuckoo Avas calling in the thorn- 

 bush near camp. Its note seemed to lack the rich ringing sound 

 it has in the spring-time at home, but was unmistakable, 1 

 apswered it about twenty times, while my collector stalked and 

 shot it — a .male in bright clean plumage with large testes 

 (7x5 mm.). The stomach contents, were too triturated to be 

 recognizable excepting for long caterpillar hairs (Zengeragusn, 

 1. xi. 21), Majiy cuckoos flying (Luguo, 10, xi, 21). Two S(?en at 

 close quarters (Kipera, 22. ii. 23). 



