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Bulawayo , Southern Rhodesia. 
30 inches, and practically all of this falls during the summer 
months, viz. from October to March. On account of the 
elevation of the town and its situation on the water-parting, 
the rainfall is rapidly drained away, and it is only where 
artificial dams have been built, as at the Waterworks, that 
there are any permanent sheets of water. 
Although well within the tropics, the small number of 
really tropical species occurring here is remarkable, and may 
probably be accounted for by the high altitude and dry 
climate. 
The Whitethroat (Sylvia cinsrea) and the Senegal Ooucal 
(Centropus senegalensis ) are now recorded for the second 
time from South Africa, while the following sixteen species 
appear to be new to Southern Rhodesia:— 
Glareola melanoptera. 
Ardetta payeri. 
Dendrocygna viduata. 
Halcyon albiventris. 
Coccystes serratus. 
Erythropygia zambesiana. 
Dryodromas fulvicapilla. 
Eremomela polioxantha. 
Camaroptera sundevalli. 
Fiscus subcoronatus. 
Antlius vaalensis. 
Mirafra nigricans. 
Hypochera funerea. 
Pyrcmelana talia. 
Coccopygia dufresnii. 
Oriolus larvatus. 
The dominant native race in this the Western Division of 
Southern Rhodesia is the Matabele, a branch of the great 
Zulu nation, which in 1836, under the leadership of 
Mziligazi, came up from the south, conquered the various 
tribes then living in the country, and settled among them, 
taking their women for wives and their children as slaves. 
These natives take a great interest in the animals and 
birds around them, having separate names for most of the 
species. But it is the young boys who are most conversant 
with the names of the smaller and less conspicuous birds; 
for at this age most of their time is spent in herding cattle 
and sheep, and they observe and talk about the birds that 
they see. 
I have given the Matabele names to as many species as 
I have been able. In reading these names, C and Q, are to 
be pronounced like the Zulu “ clicks ” : the former is much 
