376 Mr. E. L. Layard on South- African Ornithology. 



gaboer's-neck in the eastern Province, from a flock of C. bur- 

 chelli (No. 551), with which, after a careful comparison, I believe 

 it to be identical. It is the same in size ; and I conclude that its 

 brighter and more developed colours are the result of more ma- 

 ture age. 



574). Anthropoides stanleyanus. Mr. Ortle[)p writes : — 

 " Their principal food is small bulbs. When they have the 

 chance they pass the night sleeping in the water, knee-deep, and 

 in the winter months are frequently found with their legs frozen 

 fast in the ice." 



575. Balearica regulorum. A magnificent egg of this 

 species, sent by Mr. Arnott to the South-African Museum, and 

 procured in Mahura's country, is of a dull pale brown tinged with 

 green, and obscurely marked, chiefly at the obtuse end, with 

 faint reddish-brown confused blotches and spots with here and 

 thei'e a dark mark standing out prominently; axis 3" 6'", diara. 

 2" 5'". The egg of the Balearic Crane figured by Dr. Bree in 

 his ' Birds of Europe ' gives a very fair idea of the egg sent by 

 Mr. Arnott ; only the spots are more concentrated and fewer, 

 and the ground is greener. But [cf. Ibis, 1868, p. 256) Mr. 

 Ayres sends an egg which is described as white and glossy. This 

 is totally diff'erent from the egg in question. The " green lining- 

 membrane " is very visible in the Museum specimen when held 

 to the light. 



576. Ardea GOLIATH. Mr. Atmore says he has seen this 

 noble Heron at Zoetendals Vley. Mr. Arnott forwards an egg 

 which I can assign to no Heron but this. It is similar to that 

 of A. cinerea (No. 577), but larger; axis 3", diam. 2". 



577. A. CINEREA 



578. A. ATRICOLLIS 



579. A. PURPUREA 



Eggs of these three Herons have 

 :>been sent by Mr. Cotze, and those of 

 the first by Miss A. Van der Byl. 



600. Mycteria senegalensis. Dr. Exton found this fine 

 Stork in the Matabili country; and a gentleman belonging to 

 H. M. S. " Petrel," who has lately been up one of the rivers 

 running into Delagoa Bay, tells me saw it abundantly along its 

 banks and in the marshes. 



