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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
forests than other members of the genus, and is not usually 
found in ordinary bush-veld. It is somewhat locally dis¬ 
tributed, and was found in the Knysna, at Sibudeni and 
Ngoye in Zululand, and in the Inhambane, Beira, Gorongoza, 
and Tete districts of Portuguese East Africa, but does not 
exist at Zuurbron, Legogot, or the Woodbush Hills, although 
these localities are well forested and, one would think, well 
suited to its habits. It is generally observed in flocks of 
about a dozen individuals, and in pairs or family-parties in 
the summer season. The flight is graceful and floating, 
without a great deal of flapping, and it usually perches 
on the topmost boughs of the trees. It feeds on insects 
of various kinds, wild fruit and berries, and often visits 
orchards and lands for the fruit and grain, especially 
kaffir corn. I have seen it catch locusts and grasshoppers 
on the wing with a pretty easy grace. The call is almost a 
whistle, rather shrill and of several syllables, the middle 
ones uttered rapidly. 
The soft parts of the adult are :— $ . Irides pale yellow ; 
bare skin round eyes and at base of cheeks adjoining the 
lower mandible sooty black ; bill dull red, pale yellow at 
base of both mandibles ; legs and toes dull black. 
? . Soft parts as in male, except the bare skin round eyes 
and at base of cheeks adjoining the lower mandible, which is 
pale green. In a young female the irides are greyish yellow 5 
bare skin round eyes and base of cheeks paler green; bill 
duller and lighter, without the pale yellow at base.] 
430. Lophoceros epirhinus. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, Aug. (4). 
[“Nkolu” of the Machangaans. 
Only in the low bush-veld of the North-Eastern Transvaal 
have I seen this Hornbill and it was there fairly plentiful. 
It is usually in pairs, and has an easy graceful flight as it 
moves from tree to tree. In company with L . leucomelas it 
came in numbers to the grass-fires, and would perch on the 
lowest branches of the Mopani trees or bushes in front of 
the fire and dart down on the numerous grasshoppers and 
other insects that were driven out. Insects of various kinds 
