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rest of the head, neck and upper wing-coverts French grey, and

the back pale brown with two dark brown bands separated by a

dirty white one across the rump. The wings are brown edged

with black, and with a patch of metallic blue on the outer webs of

some of the inner feathers. The upper tail-coverts are dark grey ; the

tail feathers are black with grey bases. The lower breast and belly

are white, the under tail-coverts black, as is the angle of the wing,

and the under wing-coverts are brown. The iris is brown, the bill is

purplish-brown tipped with yellow, and the legs are dull crimson.


The female has no black mask, the forehead and breast being

greyish-white and the crown and nape brown like the back. The

greys of the general body plumage are duller than in the male, while

the legs are much less red and the bill is dark brown without any

yellow tip.


This completes the list of Gambia’s Pigeons, the names of

which I will repeat for reference:


The Green Pigeon ( Vinago ).


The Guinea Pigeon ( Columba ).


The Ring-necked Dove I


The Red-eyed Dove = “ Black Pigeon (Streptopelia).


The Turtle-Dove


The Senegal Dove ( Stixjmatopelia ).


The Rufous-winged Wood-Dove ( Turtur afro).


The Cape Dove (Aina).



THE BLACK-BILLED HORNBILL.


By Dr. Millet-Horsin.


[Translated by the Editor from the ‘ Bulletin of the Acclimatisation Society of


France.’]


On August 12th, 191(5, having gone to the battery of Point A,

near Dakar, I purchased from the battery guard, M. Ch6d6, a young

Hornbill ( Lophoceros nasiitus). He had obtained from a negro ten

days before two of these birds; the negro had just picked them from

a hole in a tree, intending to eat them. Pie sold them for a franc



