2 Mr. ( '. F. ]M . SwvniHM'toii on y^esfs and 



iii;ij()i-itv of liis l)ii-.ls at ?inlit, ; and it is the aceumulntcd 

 record of minute details from every locality that will, sooner 

 than anythinr^ else, place us in that position. 



[The numbers prefixed to the species are those of Gunning 

 and Hangner's ' Check-list of the Birds of South Africa.'] 



211. Tkrtur semitorquatus (Riipp.). Red-eyed Dove. 



4. 3700 ft. 2. 10. 07.— A nest was fouud 15 feet from 

 the ground on the horizontal houjih of a tree, and was the 

 slightest possible structure, consisting of a very few sticks 

 loosely put together, 7 inches across. One young bird and 

 one egg about to hatch. The egg is pradically elliptical, but 

 with a suspicion of pointing at one end, and measures 35 by 

 25 mm. ; colour, slightly creamy white. The bird was very 

 tame, waitinfj till the tree was shaken before taking her 

 departure. 



87. 3200 ft. 14. 1.0<S.— Nest 12^ feet from the ground 

 on the fork of a horizontal bough of a Parlnarium mohola. It 

 was a loose flat structure (very slightly hollowed where the 

 eggs lay) of dry sticks and a few Parlnarium leaves. It con- 

 tiiiiied two half-set eggs, 32 by 25 and 33'5 b} 25 mm. ; in 

 colour, creamier than No. 4, and a practically perfect ellipse. 

 'J'he l)ird was somewhat shy. 



218. Tympanistrta tympanistria (Temm.). Tambourine 

 Dove. 



107. 3200 ft. 7. 2. 08 —Nest a flat, slight structure of dry 

 roots, laid 8^ feet from the ground, on a horizontal fork of 

 a Brachystegia raiulii standing in a semi-wooded glen ; it 

 contained tw'o eggs, half-set, 23'(5 by 18 and 24 by 18 mm., 

 one of them a perfect ellipse (ends indistinguishable), the 

 other with a sus[)ic;ion of a point at the slightly thicker end, 

 cream-colour. 



228. Pternistes humboldtt (Ptrs.). TTuml)oldt's Fran- 

 colin. 



75. 3200 ft. 31.12.07.— The nest was a mere hollow 

 lined with grasses, in a small comparatively bare spot in 

 tlic grass-jungle. The bird sat Aery close, almost allowing 



