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both of which it agrees in having the " bill red, with the 

 cuhnen black," although in the illustration the bill is incor- 

 rectly coloured yellow. 



It must not, on account of its name, be confounded with 

 the Estrelda nitidula, Hartl. Ibis, 1885, p. 269, which I refer 

 to the genus Pytilia (Ibis, 1886, p. 319). 



II. — A List of Birds collected by Mr. Walter Ayres in Trans- 

 vaal and in Umzeilla's Country lying to the North-east 

 of Transvaal, between the 23rd and 2Uh degrees of South 

 Latitude and the 32nd and 33rd of East Longitude, ivith 

 Notes by the Collector. Communicated by John Henry 



GURNEY. 



[Such of the following species as have been obtained within 

 the Transvaal boundary, and have not been previously recorded 

 from thence by Mr. Thomas Ayres or myself, are here num- 

 bered consecutively with those of which I have previously 

 spoken in the pages of 'The Ibis.^ — J. H. G.] 



ScELOSPiziAs poLYzoxoiDEs (Smith). Smithes Many- 

 banded Hawk. 



Female, adult, iris brick-red, shot in high trees, 19th 

 June, 1885, at Lehtaba river, lat. 23° 10' and long. 31° 30'. 



AsTURiNULA MONOGRAMMiCA (Temm,). Oue-streakcd 

 Hawk. 



Female, shot at Buffers (Transvaal), September 1, 1885. 



I have met with these birds in the Rustenberg district ; 

 they are not so shy as most Hawks, and with a little caution 

 one can generally get within shot of them ; they are always 

 found in bushy country. 



AcciPiTER MiNULLUs (Daud.), Least South-African 

 Sparrow-hawk. 



Female, adult, Lehtaba river, August 21, 1885. Length 

 lOf inches, tail 5, wing 6^. Irides and legs yellow. Stomach 

 contained small birds. Shot from the top branches of a 

 high tree. 



