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black, glossed with steel-green — most pronounced on the 

 head^ neck, breast^ and upper tail-coverts. Wings (especially 

 the secondaries) and rectrices browner, but also glossed ; 

 first primary serrated ; primary-quills white at bases, but 

 quickly merging into brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries greyish, the former merging into pale brownish. 

 Irides black, bill black, and feet brownish-black. Length 

 133, wing 101, tail 71, tarsus 10, and culmen 5 mm. 

 I also noticed this Swallow (a) between Katala's kraal 

 and Sakania, where it was flying in company with the 

 European (i/^?^^<?^f/o 7'ustica), the Wire-tailed (^H. smithi), and 

 the little Pearl-breasted Swallows (H. dimidiata); (b) near 

 Mokambo Hills ; (c) Moushosi Escarpment ; (d) Moushosi 

 River. In the last instance they were flying in company 

 with the Larger Stripe-breasted Swallow {H. cucullata), the 

 European Sand-Martin (Cotile riparia), and the Banded 

 Sand-Martin (C. cincta). On the 11th of December I shot 

 a Harrier-Hawk [Polyboroides typicus) and also a Hooded 

 Vulture [Necrosyrtes pileatus). The Vulture, one of two 

 which came and perched in some trees overlooking our tents, 

 was very tame (probably very hungry), and evidently could 

 not resist the sight of so much meat — we had been rather 

 successful in our hunting, and the '' boys " were engaged 

 cutting up and drying their portions and spreading the 

 stri^js of meat on the usual rude framework of sticks over 

 a fire. The native name for these birds is '^ duni/' some- 

 times "morni" or "makubi.^^ The Lead-headed Flycatcher 

 [Tchiirea jy/umbeiceps) was not uncommon ; but, as a rule, 

 was only to be found in the dense growth which occurs 

 along the majority of streams and in some of the ravines. 

 I noticed one or two Purple Hollers, but did not ascertain 

 whether they were referable to Coracias mosambicus or 

 C. ntevius. Two bush-loving Kingfishers (^Halcyon sivamson 

 and H. albiventris orientalis) occur, but neither is at alJ 

 numerous. On the 15th of December I met with a solitary 

 Wryneck {lynx ruficollis) on the Moushosi River, but I did 

 not see this rare bird elsewhere. Later a single Coucal, 

 presumably the Senegal Coucal {Centropus senegalensis), 

 came under my notice. 



