264 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



and frequenting tlie tops of the highest trees, they are very difficult to 

 obtain. Sundevall doubts their ever reaching South Africa ; and I 

 have never heard of any being seen here of late years, at all events. 



517. Columba Carunculata, Temm., Pig. t, 2 ; 



Le Colombi-galline, Le Vail., No. 278 ; Cuv., Vol. 

 3, p. 72 ; Ooura Carunculata, Shaw, Vol. 11, p. 123. 



General colour, slaty-blue, with a Wfhite rump ; large wattles 

 pendant from the biU, and extending along the chin, crimson. 

 Stated by Le Yaillant, loc. cit., to inhabit Namaqualand ; but Sun- 

 devall shows that two specimens from Le Vaillant's collection now 

 exist in the Leyden Museum, which are nothing more than the com- 

 mon European G. lAvia, with false wattles attached. 



518. Columba Hottentota, Temm, Pig. t, 15 ; 



Columba Oularis, Wagler ; Le Colombi-Cdille, Le 



Vail., No. 283; Cuv., Vol. 3, p. 75 ; Shav^, Vol. 11, 



p. 181. 



General colour above, deep- red; forehead, chin, and throat, 



white ; under parts, grey-brown, with scale-like markings 



of black, bordered with white. Leagth about five inches. 



This species, stated t by Le Vaillant to inhabit the mountains of 

 Great Namaqualand, is affirmed by Sundevall to be fictitious. 



