516 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on the 



165. ffiNA CAPENSIS. 



(Ena capensis, Linn. ; Sharpe^ t. c. p. 572. 



Two males and one female from Ulundi, one male from 

 Eschowe^ and one male and one female from the Black 

 Umfolosi River (p. 409). 



166. GUTTERA EDOUARDI. 



Guttera eclouardi, Hartl.; Ogilvie Grant_, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 382. 



Numida verreauxi, Elliot; Sharpe, t. c. p. 585. 



Messrs. Woodward send a male of a Crested Guinea-fowl 

 from the Hlatikulu forest, Zambana's territory, north of 

 the Pongola. The collectors were inclined to believe that 

 this was a different bird from the Crested Guinea-fowls 

 mentioned in my edition of * Layard.' This is due to the 

 very inaccurate rendering by Prof. Elliot of the soft parts 

 of the head and throat, which are described as being " blue 

 on the sides and back of the neck and bright red on the 

 throat, extending from the base of the lower mandible to 

 the feathers of the breast.'^ In dried skins there is a reddish 

 appearance on these parts, which Mr. Elliot seems to have 

 taken as indicating that in life the parts are vivid, but Messrs. 

 Woodward remark : — " There are no bright colours on the 

 head, neck, and throat."^ The omission, too, of all mention 

 in Mr. Elliot's description (copied by me) of the creamy-buff 

 margins to the outer secondaries also deprives the species of 

 one of its striking characters. " Its cry is different from that 

 of the other species, and is more musical. Iris carmine.'^ 



167. LiMNOCORAX FLAVIROSTRIS. 



Limnocorax flavirostris (Licht.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 618. 

 One adult from Eschowe (p. 401). 



168. Parra africana. 



Parra africana, Gm. ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 648. 



One adult male from Santa Lucia Lake, June 1895. 



169. QCdicnemus vermiculatus. 



(Ediaiemus vermiculatus, Cab. ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 647. 

 A specimen from the Ivuna River, south of the Nongoma 

 range. 



