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Mr. G. L. Bates on the 
My adult specimen is a lighter-coloured bird than any in 
the British Museum, both above and beneath, and has only 
a very few faint bars on some of the breast-feathers : doubt¬ 
less it is an old bird. The difference between this species 
and A. castanilius, both in size and in colouring, is very 
marked. A. toussenelii is a lighter grey bird, when adult, than 
the other, besides differing conspicuously in the colouring of 
the under parts. 
No. 4.299 was said by Nkolo, who shot it, to have been 
watching the little birds which had gathered to feed about 
an army of driver-ants. As its crop contained a recently 
eaten frog, it is probable that its object was not so much to 
catch little birds as to secure the frogs that the drivers 
routed out of their hiding-places. 
No. 3268 had an old palm-stalk arrow, or part of one, 
sticking in its forehead near the left eye, so that when the 
boy who shot it saw it on the perch it looked as if it had a 
horn. The eye, which had been pierced by the arrow, had 
shrivelled up, and the wound had healed. The bird was 
somewhat fat, even though it had long been wounded and 
carried an arrow in its head. 
Baza cuculoides. 
Reichenow, V. A. i. p. 618. 
No. 2235. A Bitye, R. Ja, Feb. 1907. Stomach 
full of grasshoppers, beetles, white grubs, &c. Shot in the 
forest. 
No. 3624. ? imm. Bitye, R. Ja, April 1909. Stomach 
contained sixteen undigested grasshoppers. Iris, feet, and 
cere yellow ; bill and claws black. 
Falco subbuteo. 
Reichenow, V. A. i. p. 628. 
No. 3134. $ imm. Bitye, R. Ja, Oct. 19, 1908. 
This example, the only one that I have seen, had the 
plumage much worn, with the exception of two wing-quills 
on one side and one on the other, which looked new. It 
was brought in alive and unhurt by a man who said that he 
