ART. 17 EAST AFRICAN VERTEBRATES LOVERIDGE 37 



STIGMATOPELIA SENEGALENSIS SENEGALENSIS (Linnaeos) 

 LAUGHING DOVE 



This, the commonest dove in the territory, was captured in great 

 numbers at Dodoma and Kondoa Irangi. Only "mtama" and water 

 were* supplied them. When overcrowded they pick the feathers off 

 each other's heads. 



A nest containing two young was found at Dodoma in June. 



STREPTOPELIA DECIPIENS PERSPICILLATA (Fischer and Reichenow) 



MASSAI MOURNING DOVE 



I found five nests of this species in bulPs-horn acacia thorn standing 

 in water in the large swamp. Each nest was 5 feet from the ground, 

 which was approximately 2 feet under water. Typical doves' nests 

 built in crotch of main trunk. 



One nest had a single fresh egg ; the second and third fresh clutches 

 of two; the fourth contained two eggs very different in shape, one 

 was fresh and the other held an embryo; the fifth nest held two hard- 

 set eggs, which I left. (Nzingi, 26. v. 26.) 



Another egg laid by a captive bird in August measured 30 by 

 25 mm. 



In captivity they were given "mtama" and water, on which they 

 did well. (Dodoma, 5. viii. 26.) 



STREPTOPELIA CAPICOLA TROPICA (Reichenow) 

 EAST AFRICAN RING-NECKED DOVE 



Not so common at Dodoma as the other species, but a dozen or 

 so were brought in and throve on a " mtama '* diet. 



TRIGONOCEPS OCCIPITALIS (Burchell) 

 WHITE-HEADED VULTURE 



Brought in by an Mgogo native who had snared it the previous 

 day. Almost immediately after arrival it took meat from forceps 

 proffered by Haweis, though it was in a very small cage pending the 

 making of a specially large one. It gulped down water as soon as it 

 was put into the cage. (Dodoma, 3. vii. 26.) 



MELIERAX POLIOPTERUS Cabanis 



EAST AFRICAN CHANTING GOSHAWK 



Salimu found a single nestling on a kopje at this place; it fed well 

 on scraps of meat, but during my absence at Saranda in July it died 

 and was replaced in the collection by another nestling taken near 

 Dodoma, which never gained the full use of its legs, so I had to kill 

 it. (Kiliombo, vi. 26.) 



