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of a greyish colour, and the male and female partake of the incubation. It 

 is in the months of October and November that these birds are found in 

 Malimba ; they remain on the fig trees above mentioned only while they 

 are loaded with fi-uit ; and when that disappears, the birds disappear also, 

 and do not return till the following year." 



Specimens examined. 



The figures (Plate II.), male and female, are taken from a and (j in my 

 own collection. 



