. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 132 Bulletin never on swampy ground near streams. Not only was it identified by voice, but occasionally individuals were flushed, when the red tail of the male can be distinguished. Cave & Macdonald (1955) record it from a grassy hillside in the Imatong Mts., Stoneham cit. Jackson & Sclater (1938) from long grass savanna in the Trans-Nzoia District, and Benson (1953) from dry short grass in Nyasaland. On the other hand, Meinertzhagen (1937) did collect it in moorland bogs on Mt. Kenya. J. M. Feely (in lift.) saw a male (red t
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 132 Bulletin never on swampy ground near streams. Not only was it identified by voice, but occasionally individuals were flushed, when the red tail of the male can be distinguished. Cave & Macdonald (1955) record it from a grassy hillside in the Imatong Mts., Stoneham cit. Jackson & Sclater (1938) from long grass savanna in the Trans-Nzoia District, and Benson (1953) from dry short grass in Nyasaland. On the other hand, Meinertzhagen (1937) did collect it in moorland bogs on Mt. Kenya. J. M. Feely (in lift.) saw a male (red tail discerned in flight) on the Nyika in June; likewise C. B. Cottrell on 7th December. These dates, together with our own for January, and those in Benson (1953), do not suggest that this species has any movements in this part of Africa, unlike certain other Rallidae. As other Sarothrura spp., it evidently breeds in the rains. Not only were the testes of our specimen greatly enlarged, but eggs have been collected in eastern Southern Rhodesia in January (Smithers et al, 1959). Coturnix coturnix africana Temminck & Schlegel. 4<$, 4-12 January. All in breeding condition, as was a female collected across the border in Nyasaland. Pogoniulus (Viridibucco) leucomystax (Sharpe). 6A, 2$, 2-10 January. Sylvia atricapilla atricapi/la (Linnaeus). $, 2 January. From edge of evergreen forest. Several males also seen. Hirundo daurica emini Reichenow. $, 6 January. PJoceus (Xanthoploceus) bertrandi (Shelley). Adult 2, with feathered nestling, 10 January; immature ^, 11 January. The first two specimens were collected by Vernon at a nest, very like that of P. xanthops, made of dry grass, lined with soft plant seed-heads, slung at the end of a Lippia bush, eight feet above rank grass and bushes by water, on the edge of a forest patch. In the colour of the head, the im- mature male agrees quite well with the right-hand figure in plate II, Ibis, 1893. The crown and sides of the head are mai
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