VIII TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Account of the species — Continued. 



Superorder Neognathae — Continued. 



Order Charadriiformes — Continued. Page 



Family Scolopacidae 175 



Capella nigripennis 175 



Pisobia minuta 177 



Actitis hypoleucoB 177 



Tringa ochropus 178 



Glottis nebularia 180 



Rhyacophilus glareola 180 



Family Recurvirostridae 181 



Himantopus himantopus 181 



Family Oedicnemidae 182 



Oedicnemus senegalensis assimilis 182 



Oedicnemus capensis affin's 184 



Oedicnemus vermiculatus vermiculatus 185 



Family Glareolidae 187 



Rhinoptilus africanus raffertyi 187 



Rhinoptilus cinctus cinctus 188 



Glareola pratincola limbata 191 



Family Laridae 193 



Larus fuscus fuscus 193 



Hydrocoloeus cirrhocephalus poiocephalus 194 



Order Columbiformes 197 



Family Pteroclidae 197 



Pterocles senegalensis senegalensis 197 



Pterocles senegalensis somalicus 198 



Eremialector gutturalis saturatior 200 



Eremialector lichtensteinii abessinicus 202 



Eremialector lichtensteinii hyperythrus 204 



Family Columbidae 205 



Columba albitorques 205 



Columba guinea guinea 207 



Columba arquatrix arquatrix 210 



Streptopelia lugens 213 



Streptopelia semitorquata semitorquata 216 



Streptopelia decipiens 219 



Streptopelia decipiens permista 222 



Streptopelia decipiens griseiventris 223 



Streptopelia decipiens perspicillata 224 



Streptopelia capicola somalica 224 



Streptopelia capicola electa 225 



Streptopelia roseogrisea arabica 228 



Stigmatopelia senegalensis aequatorialis 231 



Oena capensis capensis 234 



Tympanistria tympanistria fraseri 237 



Turtur af er mearnsi 239 



Turtur chalcospilos chalcospilos 240 



Aplopelia larvata larvata 242 



Vinago waalia 244 



Vinago calva brevicera 246 



