6 NEAVE, Collection of Birds from N.E. Rhodesia. 



height of the dry season in very large flocks of from IOO 

 to 200 individuals. 



" Kanga" of all the neighbouring tribes. 



8. Numida marungensis. 



Numida marungcnsis. Schalow, Zeitschr. gesamm. Orn,, vol. 1, 

 p. 105 (1884, Marungu) ; Reichen., "Vog. Afrikas," 

 vol. 1, p. 443. 



465. 6 ad. E. bank of Kafue, near Ndola. October 

 24, 1905. 



Bill, horn -colour, tips of mandibles paler ; base of 

 lower mandible reddish ; iris, brown ; feet, black ; bare 

 skin round nostrils and above eyes blood-red ; casque 

 and back of head, orange-yellow ; around eyes, ears, side 

 of cheeks and throat pale greenish-blue ; lappet, purplish- 

 blue, tipped red. 



Two flocks only seen ; both on the Kafue River. 

 Appears to have the same habits as N. mitrata. 



This appears to be the true N. marungensis of 

 Schalow, being distinguished from the Benguela birds, 

 N. maxima of Neumann, by its orange-yellow casque. 



9. Guttera edouardi. 



Numida edouardi, Hartl., Journ. f. Ornith., 1867, p. 36 (Natal). 

 Numida cristata, Bocage, " Orn. Angola," p. 399. 

 Guttera edouardi, Grant, "Cat. B. Brit. Mus.," vol. 22, p. 382; 

 W. L. Sclater, " Fauna S. Africa, Birds," vol. 4, p. 233 

 (1906). 

 Guttera cristata edouardi, Reichen., "Vog. Afrikas," vol. 1, p. 

 45i- 

 305, 306. $ ? ad. E. bank of Loangwa. July 6, 

 1905. 



Bill, horn-colour, greyish at base ; iris, deep red ; 

 feet, dark grey in male, blue-grey in female ; bare skin of 



