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distance ; I have myself heard it, under favourable circumstances, 
at a distance of nearly two miles. The call of the female is ex¬ 
actly the same coo-coo, only pitched one note higher than that 
of the male. The male invariably calls first, the female imme¬ 
diately answers, and they continue this for perhaps five or ten 
minutes, every now and then, as they are feeding. Their flight 
is heavy, and when disturbed, although very shy, they seldom fly 
more than half a mile before they alight again. At a distance 
they would be easily mistaken for turkeys, their body being deep 
and rather compressed, similarly to those birds, with the wings 
carried well on the back. The little pouch on the throat they 
are able to fill with air at pleasure—the male bird now sent 
doing this before he died. 
I think their principal range of country is on the coast, and 
from twenty to thirty miles inland. They roost on trees at 
night, but always feed on the ground. 
[Neither of the specimens sent by Mr. Ayres exhibited the 
full development of the remarkable elevation on the upper part 
of the bill which distinguishes the old males of this species.— 
J. H. G,] 
135. Buceros buccinator, Temm. Trumpeter Hornbill. 
136. Toccus coronatus (Bodd.). Crowned Hornbill. z (rj- J A 
[This species and the preceding one were both sent to Mr 
Stevens by Mr. Gueinzius. The latter was ticketed, “ 2 • Hides 
yellow/’—J. H. G.] 
137. Chera progne (Bodd.). Progne Widow-bird. 
Male. Eye nearly black. These beautiful birds are very 
plentiful in the inland parts of the colony and in the Free 
State and Trans-Yaal, but are seldom found within eight or ten 
miles of the coast. They are gregarious, there being perhaps one 
or two males to twenty or thirty females. In the months of 
December and January (the breeding season) the males assume 
their gaudy plumage (when their flight is in consequence heavy, 
but still, with or across the wind, they are able to sustain it a 
considerable distance), again shedding their tails in March. 
The females are brown, as are also the males, excepting in the 
months previously mentioned, the only distinguishing mark 
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