232 at.len's naturalist's library. 



say that during eight expeditions I only succeeded in obtaining 

 three shots, out of which two birds Were wounded and lost, 

 while the third is now in the Warsaw Museum. About the 

 loth of January, 1877, my companion (M. Jelski) shot a 

 female, which was quietly sitting on a branch, and noticed 

 that another small bird fell at the same moment ; this was a 

 chick about two days old, and a second remained on the 

 branch unhurt. Probably the mother was holding them 

 under her wing, for the one that was killed was on the side 

 nearest the shooter. On the same tree there was a thick nest, 

 loosely composed of dry sticks, and placed at a height of about 

 three metres above the ground. My companion brought this 

 living chick back to the house; we were luckily successful in 

 rearing it." A long and interesting account follows of the 

 bringing up of this bird, which showed remarkable intelligence 

 and affection for its human foster-parents. 



IJest. — Placed in a tree, and composed of sticks and twigs. 



THE BLACK PENELOPES. GENUS PENELOPINA. 



Penelopi7ia, Reichenb. Tauben. p. 152 (1862). 



Type. P. nigra ( Eraser). 



Sexes differ from o?ie another in plumage. Top of the head 

 feathered, but the feathers do not form a crest. 



The width of the upper mandible is greater than the height. 

 Throat and fore-neck naked, with a median wattle in the male. 



Tail composed of tivelve feathers, rather long and rounded ; 

 the outer pair being about two-thirds of the length of the 

 middle pair. 



First primary flight feather much the shortest : eighth about 

 equal in length to the tenth ; ninth slightly the longest. 



[In the immature male the wing is of quite a different shape, 

 the first primary flight-feather being shorter than the second, 



