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unknown. Boehm says that two young birds, which he believes were of this species, were brought to 
him on the 16th November, but unfortunately he could not preserve them. 
Like its congeners it feeds on insects of various kinds, chiefly grasshoppers and coleoptera. 
On the first Plate I have given a figure of the type, for the loan of which I am indebted to 
Mr. Trimen, the Curator of the South African Museum, Cape Town, who most courteously obtained 
permission and forwarded it to me to examine and figure; and on the second Plate I have figured the 
specimen from the Shelley collection, obtained by Jameson on the Umvuli river in August 1880. The 
type, a male, was obtained by Bradshaw on the western boundary of the Leshumo valley, Zambesi, 
on the 23rd May, 1878. Besides these two specimens and the three examples in the British Museum 
from the Pantanatenka river, Matabeleland, Ugogo, and Benguela, I have examined the following 
specimens:— 
E Mus. Jameson. 
a, b. Umvnli river, August 1880 [Jameson). 
