50 Mr. C. G. Davies on the 



tell which was which until I shot them. I found both 

 species frequenting the same localities in about equal 

 numbers, but this species is often found in more hilly 

 ground than C. terrestris. 



I should like to record two interesting additions to the 

 birds of this district, viz. : — 



A specimen of the Golden Oriole (Oriolus gallmla), shot 

 on a farm about ten miles from here on the 21st by 

 Mr. Gould, and brought to me in the flesh ; it is a young 

 bird in the green, stripe-breasted plumage ; I could not 

 ascertain the sex as it was in a very decomposed state. 



The other is a fine specimen of the Booted Eagle {Hieraetus 

 pennatus), shot by myself on a farm about five miles from 

 here on the 17th November, 1912. It is a young female, I 

 think, as it answers very much to the descriptions of young 

 birds given by both Sharpe and Sclater, and the ovaries 

 were very minute, in fact I had some difficulty in finding 

 them. 



I am not very well up in the literature of H. pennahis, as 

 my library is limited, but I believe there are two forms of 

 plumage exhibited by this Eagle, a light- and a dark-breasted 

 form. Sharpe, however, in the ' Catalogue of Birds, British 

 Museum,' vol. i., does not mention this. Sclater, in the 3rd 

 volume ' Fauna of S. Africa, Birds,' after describing the 

 plumage of the young, says: "Some birds retain the dark 

 brown of the under parts for a long time and even breed in 

 this plumage." In 1875, however, Dr. L. Bureau wrote an 

 article on this species in one of the French scientific journals, 

 in which he stated that after a long and careful study of 

 large numbers of specimens, both adult and young, and after 

 observing them in a state of nature, he had come to the con- 

 clusion that th(M-e are two distinct forms of plumage, both in 

 the adult and young — a light- and a dark-breasted form — and 

 descril^es and figures specimens shot by himself and others 

 in all parts of Europe. He found dark-breasted birds 



