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as thirty or forty fluttering about and inserting their long 
beaks into the scarlet blossoms of the Kaffir boom-tree, visit- 
ing first one flower and then another. 
52. NECTARINIA AMETHYSTINA. 
Shot one or two near Rustenberg, and observed it more 
than once during my journey through the bush between Pot- 
chefstroom and Rustenberg. I also saw a few in the bush 
near Pretoria, and I have killed it in British Kaffraria, near 
East London, in company with N. chalybea; it is, however, 
much more shy in its habits than the latter bird. — 
53. BuTraLis UNDULATA. 
From Macamac. 
54. PoGoNocICHLA STELLATA. 
Common at Macamac Gold-fields. I did not observe them 
near Rustenberg. 
55. Liopritus NIGRICAPILLUS. 
From near Lydenburg and Pilgrim’s Rest Gold-fields. 
56. Batis CAPENSIS. 
From Macamac. Procured on the stony coppices on the 
sides of the hills, where I observed them flitting about among 
the stunted brushwood. 
57. TERPSIPHONE VIRIDIS. 
I shot one of these birds near the town of Rustenberg; and 
I found them also near the waterfall under the mountain, and 
by the side of an old stone wall. I have also seen them in 
the bush near Pretoria. 
58. Hirunpbo RUSTICA. 
I brought home two specimens killed in the SETA Sain TGne 
of Potchefstroom. One is a male, apparently adult, but not 
quite in full plumage, not having the long outer tail-feathers. 
The other is in the curious young plumage, which, it appears, 
the Common Swallow assumes only during its sojourn in 
South Africa: the head is brown, with no trace of a frontal 
patch ; and the throat is white. These Swallows appear every 
year in the district of Potchefstroom during our summer 
months. 
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