316 Mr. W. L. Sclater on the 



the merest trace of white on the throat ; it is, however, too 

 light in general colour to be placed under M. a. pekinensis ; 

 so that until more material is available from south-west 

 Africa, I leave it for the present in the position Hartert 

 has put it, cf. Vog. palaartk. Fauna, 1912, p. 839. 



MiCROPUS BARBATUS. 



Cypselus barbatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 599 : South 

 Africa, ex Temm. 



Eather darker than M. a. apus, with distinct black stripes 

 on the throat and having a somewhat larger and broader bill. 



A resident in South Africa. Wing in three males 180- 

 173 mm., one female 182 mm.; three specimens not sexed 

 have the wing 186-176 mm. 



[To be continued.] 



XIV. — The "Mauritius Hen^'' of Peter Mundy. 

 By W. L. Sclater, M.A., M.B.O.U. 



There has recently been published by the Hakluyt Society 

 and edited by Lt.-Col. Sir Richard C. Temple, Bt., Peter 

 Mundy's account of his travels in Europe and Asia in the 

 early part of the seventeenth century. 



Peter Mundy was born about the year 1596 at Penryn in 

 Cornwall, and in addition to his travels in Europe as far as 

 Constantinople and Archangel, he made three voyages to the 

 east, the first to India in the East India Company's service 

 in 1628-1634, the second with Sir Wm. Courten's fleet to 

 India aud Japan in 1635-1638, and the third to India in 

 1655-1656. He is supposed to have died about 1667 at his 

 native town of Penryn. 



The account of his travels, very carefully prepared by 

 himself, has remained up till now in MSS. and unpublished 

 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, while there is a second 

 less complete copy in the British Museum. 



The second volume recently published by the Hakluyt 

 Society contains an account of Mundy's first voyage to 



