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total length 46 inches, wing 25, tail 14, bill from gape 4^, 

 tarsus 10 ; it was shot 25th October, and had the pouch very 

 apparent, commencing at the base of the tongue, where it 

 was some three inches wide, and extending about five inches 

 down the throat in the form of an isosceles triangle. 



[Mr. E. C. Buxton informs me that he shot one of these 

 Bustards, near the Lambomba Mountains, which weighed 

 '^nearly 40lb.^^— J. H. G.] 



209. EuPODOTis AFRoiDES (Smith). Black-and-white- 

 winged Bustard. 



[I suspect that in this species the male is subject to a sea- 

 sonal change, and only assumes the dress represented in Sir 

 A. Smith's figure (pi. 19. fig. a) at the approach of the breed- 

 ing-season. Of two males sent by Mr. Ayres, one shot 31st 

 January is in very nearly full dress, but the other, killed on 

 4th May, is evidently in change, having a large portion of its 

 plumage like that of the female, and apparently having been 

 killed while in the course of assuming a dress resembling that 

 ofthehenbird.— J. H. G.] 



CuRSORius RUFUs, Gould. Burchell's Courser. 



Male. Bill dusky, but the under mandible pale at the base ; 

 irides very dark hazel ; tarsi and feet white. 



This species breeds in November on the open flats outside 

 the town of Potchefstroom. 



[Mr. Ayres forwards one specimen killed in November, and 

 two killed in June, the former of which was labelled as fol- 

 lows : — " 18th November. A small mound of sand and gravel ; 

 eggs placed in a small depression in the centre ; two eggs much 

 incubated. — J. H. G.] 



CuRSORius BiciNCTUs, Tcmm. Double-collared Courser. 



Male. Shot near Potchefstroom 29th March. Bill black ; 

 irides dark hazel ; tarsi and feet white. 



This is a much scarcer bird than C. rufus. 



Glareola nordmanni, Fisch. Nordmann's Pratincole. 



Bill black, with the base and the edges of the mandibles 

 red ; tarsi and feet dusky ; one specimen sent, shot 1st of 

 October. 



