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places^ but inclined to be local. Native name " polobi." 

 I found the Red-eyed Dove (Turtur semitorquatns) especially 

 abundant in the neighbourhood of natives^ lands and kraals, 

 and they are known as ''kiwa." or 'Mcufia/^ The smaller 

 Laughing Dove {T. senegalensis) — "kumperi^^ — was also 

 plentiful and more widely distributed than the last named. 



Striking out across country we eventually arrived at 

 the Moushosi Escarpment, and here remained for a con- 

 siderable time. The Ground-Hornbill {Bucorax cafer), the 

 " menornba " of the natives, was very common, and not a 

 day passed but we heard the peculiar booming note of this 

 bird. The call is particularly^ noticeable early in the 

 morning, often starting before sunrise, and consists of two 

 notes (answered by the female with a similar call, but in 

 another key). As the sun ascends, the call often consists 

 of four or five notes, and so on, until about 9 or 10 

 o^clock, when they become silent to a great degree. Other 

 species of Hornbills noticed were the Zambesi Trumpeter 

 {Bycanistes cristaius), the Crowned Hornbill {Lophoceros 

 melanoleucus), and, I think, the South-African Grey species (Z. 

 epirhinus). The natives call the larger species ''malongwe" 

 and the smaller " vunvunganana.^' When we were at 

 Sikobwa's kraal the "boys'"' brought into camp two fledge- 

 ling "malongwe" (Bycanistes) which they had taken from a 

 hole in a tree, after the female had been released by her mate. 

 Again, about a week later, the cook captured a female 

 Crowned Hornbill which Avas imprisoned, but which was 

 nearly through with her moult. This bird was very fat and 

 in extremely good fettle, and was considered a great delicacy. 

 Parrots (Posocephalus meyeri) were common here, and I 

 believe I also saw a larger species, with red in the wing, on 

 one or two occasions. When returning from shooting one 

 morning, 1 had left my ''boy" to bring in a fine big bush- 

 buck, when I saw a duck in a small stream flowing out of one 

 of the many ravines here. This little duck proved to be a 

 Cape Widgeon {Nettion capense). On seeing me it dived, 

 or rather submerged itself almost completely, and 1 blew 

 the back of its head off with a "375 Express bullet I The 



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