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195. Amadina ekytiikocephala (Lhm.). Red-headed 

 Finch. 



These pretty little Sparrows are exceedingly scarce here : 

 but a single bii'd or a pair very occasionally appear. The pair 

 now sent were shot in the town of Potchefstroom. 



196. Vidua PRINCIPALIS (Linn.). Dominican Widow bird. 

 The specimen sent was also shot in the town of Potchef- 

 stroom. 



197. Alauda conirostris, Sund. Pink-billed Lark. (Plate 

 III. fig. 1.) 



The specimen sent (a female) was shot on the flats about 

 two miles from Potchefstroom. 



198. Megalophonus erythrochlamys (Strick.). (Plato 

 III. fig. 2.) 



I shot the specimen sent (a female) amongst some rocks 

 and stones in a range of low hills some three or four miles 

 from Potchefstroom ; it had a peculiar knack of hiding itself 

 by creeping over and about the bits of rock. 



[This species and the preceding one, having, so far as I 

 know, never been figured ; a plate of the specimens obtained 

 by Mr. Ayres is here given. 



A specimen of M. erythrochlamys which is preserved in the 

 late Mr. Strickland's collection at the Cambridge museum,, 

 is considerably paler in its tints than Mr. Ayres's Trans- Vaal 

 specimen ; but this is probably due in part to the latter having 

 been killed shortly after moulting, and whilst its newly ac- 

 quired dress was still unfaded. — J. H. G.] 



199. Chrysococcyx cupREUs (Bodd.) . Didric Cuckoo. 

 The two specimens sent were shot in the town of Potchef- 

 stroom. 



[Conf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 163 & 467.— J.H.G.] 



200. CoTURNix dactylisonans, Bodd. European Quail. 



I think this species is pretty generally distributed ; they are 

 tolerably plentiful amongst the grass along the banks of the 

 river about five miles from Potchefstroom. 



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