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the assembly by the voluntary gift of the neighbouring people,' 

 Poles were erected at different places round the scene of the 

 festivity, on which were suspended ^reen boughs, — to these 

 places were brought skins of milk; and numbers of baskets, out 

 of which they drank, were kept constantly filled. Several 

 children were employed in fanning away the flies, that would 

 otherwise soon fill the vessels to the great annoyance and dis- 

 gust of the Caffer, who has the greatest dislike to those Insects. 

 (To be concluded in the next.) 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LITERARY 

 AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. 



Octoher 2. — Dr. Smith called the atteation of the Society to 

 several South African birds which were placed upon the table, 

 but more particularly to the following, which he described and 

 named : 



Crithafrra albogularis. Above greenish grey with some" 

 dark variegation ; rump and tail coverts greenish yellow ; chin, 

 throat, and eyebrows white ; breast and flanks dusky grey ; 

 centre of belly, vent, and under tail coverts white ; wing and 

 tail feathers brownish, slightly edged with dull white. Length- 

 five inches and a half. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Sir Wm. Jardine, it was stated, regards this as the female of Cri- 

 ihagra sulphurate, but it was added, that they are never found asso- 

 ciated together, nor even in the same localities. 



Corythuix concolor. Forehead with a long crest, which, with 

 the entire plumage, is greyish, faintly mottled in some places with 

 fine, dull, reddish white transverse lines; quill feathers dark 

 brownish; tail very long, hoary grey with a deep greenish gloss, 

 particularly towards the tip ; bill, legs, and toes black. Length 

 nineteen inches. 



Inhabits South Africa, inland of Port Natal. 



It was remarked that this bird differed in several points, particularly 

 in the form of the bill, from the typical species of the genus, and that 

 it might hereafter require to be made the type of a new division, under 

 the name of Corythaixoides. 



Francolinus Natalensis. Top of head, back, scapulars, 

 shoulders, and tail, light brown, finely mottled with brownish 

 black and tawny white, the former in the shape of longitudinal 

 blotches upon the scapulars ; eyebrows, sides of head, neck, 

 breast, and anterior part of belly, variegated black and white ; 

 posterior part of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, a mixture 

 of black, tawny white, and light brown ; bill reddish brown ; 

 legs, toes, and claws, reddish yellow ; eyes brown. Length 

 from bill to tip of tail twelve inches and a half. 



Inhabits brushwood thickets in the vicinity of Natal. 



