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Knysna, Jan. (0. J. An- 



dersson). 

 Natal. 



Durban (Gordge). 

 Durban, Feb., March (G. 



E 8.). 

 Pangani R. (Kirk). 

 Fantee (Ussher). 

 Int. of Fantee. 

 Taveta, Kilimanjaro, June. 

 Kilimanjaro. 

 Zomba, Nyassaland. 

 Abeokuta. 



Gaboon (Du Chaillu). 

 Grand Comoro (Kirk). 

 Grand Comoro. 

 S. Africa. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



T. L. Ayres, Esq. [C.]- 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 J. Hickman, Esq. [P.l. 

 H. C.V. Hunter, Esq. [P/, 

 H. H. Johnston, Esq. [C. 

 H. H. Johnston, Esq. [C 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 Zoological Society's Coll.* 



CHALCOPELIA. 



Type. 



Chalcopelia, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 07 (1854) C. afra. 



Chalcopeleia, Rchub. Tauben, i. p. 78 (1862) (nonien emend.). 



Range. Tropical Africa, from Gambia on the west and Abyssinia 

 on the east, and South Africa. 



1 . Chalcopelia afra. 



Turtur senegalensis, Briss. Orn. i. p. 122, t. 10. f. 1 (1700). 

 Columba afra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 2S4, n. 31 (1706) ; Gm. S. N. i. 2, 



p. 780, n. 31 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 611, n. 04(1790); 



Bonn. Tabl. Enc. Meth.y. 249 (1790; ; Temm. fyKnip, Pig. i. fam. 



sec. p. 83, pis. 38, 39 (1808-11) ; Temm. Pig. et Gallin. i. pp.291, 



476 (1813) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 380 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 



xi. p. 81 (1819) ; Desm. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 342 (1820) ; Less. 



Tr. d'Orn. p. 472 (1831) ; id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 49 



* TyMPANISTKIA VIRGO. 



Tympanislria virgo, Hartl. Ibis, 1886, p. 2 (Djanda, E. Equatorial Africa) ; 

 id. Zoolog. Jahrb. ii. p. 331 (1887). 



" Mas. Supra ex olivascente fusea, fascia tergi uniea, maculis irregularibus 

 obscurioribua vix conspicua ; stria a rictu per ocidum ducta fusca ; sincipite, 

 superciliis valde angustatis, corporeque subtus pure albis ; subcaudalibus ob- 

 scure fuscis ; subalaribus liete ferrugineis ; remigibus primariis nigro-fuscis, 

 horum pogoniis iuternis, parte apicali excepta, chmamouieis, septimo, octavo, 

 nono et decimo in pogonio extemo et interuo rufls, ultimis dorso proximis et 

 scapularibus necuon tectricibus totis durso concoloribus ; maculis metallicis alee 

 omnino nullis ; rectricibus fuscis, binis lateralibus griseis, fascia lata anteapicali 

 nigra ; rostro rubello-fuscescente ; pedibus coccineis ; iride aurantiaco-rubente. 

 Long, tota circa 25 cent, rostr. 14 mill., al. 122 mill., caud. 85 mill., tars. 

 20 mill." (HaHlaub.) 



Hab. Djanda, E. Equatorial Africa. 



I am not acquainted with this bird, which, according to Dr. Hartlaub, differs 

 from T. tympanistria in having no metallic wing-spots ; but I cannot help 

 thinking that the metallic-spotted wing-feathers are missing in the bird 

 described. 



