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lesser and median coverts plumbeous, the inner ones of the latter series 

 with metallic g-reen or purple spots; greater coverts slate g'ray, with 

 broad blackish tips; innermost secondaries (tertials) brownish gra}'; 

 forehead, lores, chin, and throat black; sides of neck pale brownish 

 gra}'; sides of jugulum pearl gray; rest of lower surface white, except 

 the crissum, which is mostly black; lining of wing chestnut. Length of 

 wing, 104; tail, 132; exposed culmen, 14; tarsus, 13; middle toe, 13 mm. 



An adult female, taken at the same time and place as the type, has 

 a dusky bill, and is rather paler, more brownish, both above and below, 

 lacking, of course, all the black of head and throat, this being replaced 

 on forehead and chin b}' pale buff, on the throat by grayish ochraceous. 

 Compared with the female of the South African form it exhibits the 

 same subspeciHc characters as the male, except that there is no differ- 

 ence in the distribution of the white on the outermost rectrices. 



This northern race of (Ena capensis has apparently hitherto 

 remained unnoticed, since all the names applied to the species^' have 

 been based on the bird from southern Africa. Its exact distribution 

 remains j'et to be determined, for the above comparison has been made 

 with birds from Cape Colony alone, but in all probability (Ena c. 

 anonyma occupies the region to the southward as far as the neighbor- 

 hood of the Zambesi River. 



CHALCOPELIA AFRA (Linnaeus). 



Columba rt//-a Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 176<;, p. 284 (Senegal). 



Four specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet altitude. 

 One of them, an adult, taken April 20, 1888, is in molt. The sexes 

 seem to be practically alike, the only observable difference being the 

 barel}^ paler color and slightl}" smaller size of the female. An imma- 

 ture bird, however, is more rufescent on the back, cervix, and scapu- 

 lars; the secondaries, except the innermost, are paler, mottled with 

 dusk}^ on their exterior webs, tipped with tawn}- or ochraceous, and 

 have a sul^terminal fuscous 'bar; the forehead is pale buff, the crown 

 washed with the same color; the sides of head and neck, together with 

 the entire lower surface, excepting the crissum, are strong-ly tinged 

 with ochraceous; the lower parts, save the middle of the abdomen, 

 have obsolete dusky bars, these most conspicuous on the sides and 

 flanks; the edge of the wing is also barred with blackish. 



Even so recent and discriminating an authority as Doctor Reichenow '' 



« These are : 



Columba capeimh Linna'us, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, }). 286 (Cape of Good 

 Hope). 



Columba atricollis Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, p. 135 (Cape of Good Hope). 



Columba atrogularis Wagler, Syst. Avium, 1827 {Columba, sp. 108), p. 270 (new 

 name for Columba copensis). 



& Vogel Africas, I, 1?01, p. 426. 



