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say that during eight expeditions I only succeeded in obtaining 
three shots, out of which two birds were wounded and lost, 
while the third is now in the Warsaw Museum. About the 
1oth of January, 1877, my companion (M. Jelski) shot a 
female, which was quietly sitting on a branch, and noticed 
that another small bird fell at the same moment; this was a 
chick about two days old, and a second remained on the 
branch unhurt. Probably the mother was holding them 
under her wing, for the one that was killed was on the side 
nearest the shooter. On the same tree there was a thick nest, 
loosely composed of dry sticks, and placed ata height of about 
three metres above the ground. My companion brought this 
living chick back to the house; we were luckily successful in 
rearing it.” A long and interesting account follows of the 
bringing up of this bird, which showed remarkable intelligence 
and affection for its human foster-parents. 
Nest.—Placed in a tree, and composed of sticks and twigs. 
THE BLACK PENELOPES. GENUS PENELOPINA. 
Penelopina, Reichenb. Tauben. p. 152 (1862). 
Type. P. xigra (Fraser). 
Sexes differ from one another in plumage. Top of the head 
feathered, but the feathers do mot form a crest. 
The width of the upper mandible is greater than the height. 
Throat and fore-neck zaked, with a median wattle in the male. 
Tail composed of ¢we/ve feathers, rather long and rounded ; 
the outer pair being about two-thirds of the length of the 
middle pair. 
First primary flight feather much the shortest: eighth about 
equal in length to the tenth ; ninth slightly the longest. 
[In the immature male the wing is of quite a different shape, 
the first primary flight-feather being shorter than the second, 
