from the Ruo and Shire Rivers. 593 
difficult to shoot. I saw one have a long hunt after a 
Warbler, which was in some cover, too thick for the Hawk 
to get through. I saw another kill a Weaver-bird. 
67. AsTUR INULA MONOGRAMMiCA Temm. j Shelley, Ibis, 
1896, p. 229. 
I obtained a very fine female of this Hawk on August 12 : 
it was sitting gorged with termites, and allowed me to 
walk right up to it. This was just after a shower of rain, 
and the termites were out in thousands. It is a bird of 
the thick bush and is seldom seen out of it. I observed 
some four or five at different times, but always in the 
thickest cover. When fiying away the white rump shews 
very distinctly. 
68. Mach^rhamphus anderssoni (Gurney) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 343 (1874). 
This bird is nocturnal and feeds on bats. 
My specimen was obtained one evening in the early part 
of August, 1898, while I was waiting for Ducks. In flight 
the bird much resembles a Falcon ; in fact, until it came 
to hand, I thought that it was one. Its stomach was quite 
empty, and the bird itself in very poor condition. It was a 
young male in changing plumage. 
One other example was seen near the Shire River, some 
twenty-five miles from where I obtained my specimen. I 
spent almost the whole of one night watching for it, then 
told my gun-boy to stay, and promised him a reward if he 
got it; he saw it on the following evening, but did not get 
a shot. Later he brought me a female Polyhoroides typicus, 
which he said was the right bird, and was anxious to have 
the reward. 
I asked my boys the name of the bird and they all said 
it was Chic^a^babo ; but that name very likely covers several 
other Hawks as well. 
69. Haliajetus vocifer (Daud.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1897, 
p. 549. 
By no means rare along the Zambesi and the Shire, 
breeding both on rocks and in trees. 
