HUNTING ON THE SIMBA BIVER 251 
metallic reflections; others were arrayed in crimsons 
and greens, gold and purples. 
Barbets with contrasted colours and ringing voice 
are always in evidence, and there were woodpeckers 
and shrikes, drongos, babblers and colies. By the river 
I got a sight of a bush-cuckoo, and we heard his note at 
night. But the only other birds I shall specifically 
mention were the hornbills. These were not the big 
A horn bill at simba (probably Lophoceros fasciatus). 
black fellows of the Man Forest, but of the smaller family 
defined as Lophoceros —quaint creatures, all bill, wings 
and tail. From tree to tree they sweep in silent 
undulated flight, alternating half-a-dozen heavy flaps 
with long drooping glides. The huge bill, always dis¬ 
proportionate in appearance, on alighting seems to 
upset equilibrium altogether, and much flapping and 
balancing is often required to restore it. One species, 
as roughly sketched, displayed conspicuous white spots 
on the wings, and also on the outer tail-feathers. 
