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snare (Bavia) , the female I shot near our Station at Sofore 

 Place. No sexual difference can be observed. 



Iris dark brown, bill dark horn-brown, tip flesh-color , 

 feet carmiueous. 



Peristera afra. 



Columha afra ^ Linn. Syst. Nat. 1766. I. p. 284. 



Peristera {Chalcopelia) afra , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 197 ; — 

 Schl. Mus. P.-B., Columbae, p. 144. 



Chalcopelia afra (Bp.) , Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 389 ; — 

 Shelley, Ibis 1883, p. 323. 



Hab. The whole of Africa south of about 17° N. lat. 



Collected in the Grand Cape Mount Country. 



One of the commonest birds in the coast region, where 

 it is met with in grass plains , farms , at the waterside , 

 but especially in the vicinity of the Negro settlements , 

 where nearly the whole day their well-known » hoop, hoop" 

 can be beared. They seem to live entirely upon grass seeds. 

 Their nests are found in thickets and are built in the 

 same way as those of Turtur semitorquatus but much neater 

 and thicker than those of the latter. The two eggs are 

 white with a yellowish hue and measure 2,2 cm. in length 

 and 1,7 cm. in width. They were collected in December. 



Iris dark brown , bill , with the exception of the yellow 

 point, and feet red. 



Peristera tympanistria. 



Columha tympanistria , Temm. & Knip , Pig. I, p. 80, pi. 36. 



Peristera (Tympanistria) tympanistria^ Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 

 p. 197; — Schl. Mus. P.-B., Columbae, p. 143; — Boc. 

 Orn. d'Ang., p. 393. 



Tympanistria tympanistria, Shelley, Ibis 1883, p. 326. 



Collected along the St. Paul's River and near the Fisher- 

 man Lake. 



!>iotes from the Leyden ÜMuseutn, "Vol. "VII. 



