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on which it is resting. The flight is undulating and the call 
is a hissing “ zee.” 
When disturbed it will sometimes perch on the tops of 
trees, but more often flies clean away. 
The soft parts are :—Irides blood-orange; eyelid lemon- 
coloured ; bill sealing-wax red ; legs and toes grey-brown. 
N.B. —The iris is composed of two colours, the inner part 
being blood-orange, with a narrow outer ring of lemon- 
yellow.] 
6. Creatophora carunculata. 
CC. Durban lid., Sept. (10) ; Tv. Klein Letaba, 
Aug. (1). 
Two of the males have quite bare heads and are doubtless 
very old birds; in the others the amount of bare skin and 
the development of the wattles varies a good deal and no 
two are exactly alike. The females shew no sign of wattles 
and have only the thin streaks and patches round the eyes 
bare. 
[The Wattled Starling was noted from the Cape Peninsula, 
the North-Eastern Transvaal, and the Inhambane and Beira 
districts of the Portuguese country. It is always found in 
flocks, often of considerable size. In habits and flight it 
greatly resembles the European Starling. 
The soft parts are :— 
<$ , breeding. Irides hazel; bill almost like ivory ; bare 
skin behind eye greenish, rest of pale skin lemon-yellow; all 
the dark skin black.] 
7. Amydrus morio. 
CO. Tokai, Feb. (1) ; Table Mt., Jan. (1); Plettenberg 
Bay, Eeb., Mch. (5); Knysna, Apl. (1) ; Tv. Wakkerstroom, 
Mch.(l); Zuurbron,May (3); Woodbush,June(3); Turfloop, 
Mch. (1); Sibudeni, Oct. to Jan. (8). 
[“Esome” of Zulus. u Booi-vlerk sprew ” of Colonists. 
The Bed-winged Starling frequents more or less moun¬ 
tainous country, and was noted from the Cape Peninsula, 
the Knysna district, Zululand, and the South-Eastern, 
Eastern, and North-Eastern Transvaal. It was observed both 
