280 Capt. G. E. Shelley on the 



Columba guineensis, Finsch fe-Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, 

 p. 439, pt. ?; Bocage, Orn. Angola, 1881, p. 381, Huilla, 

 Capangombe. 



Stictcenas phcBonotus, Gurney in Anderss. B. Damara Ld. 

 1872, p. 231 ; Slielley, Ibis, 1875, p. 83, Cape Colony. 



Stictcenas trigonigera, Schl. Mus. P.-B. iv. 1873, p. 73. 



Entire head leaden grey, with a large patch round the eye 

 crimson ; feathers of the neck lanceolate fawn-colour, with 

 the ends vinous, often tinted with grey and partially glossed 

 with metallic lilac and green; upper back, scapulars, inner 

 wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries vinous-chestnut, 

 shading into deep grey on the remainder of the wings ; nearly 

 all the wing-coverts are tipped with white triangula,r spots ; 

 the outer secondaries shade into black towards their ends, 

 which are narrowly edged with white ; the primaries shade 

 into dark brown towards their ends, and have narrow partial 

 pale edges to their outer webs ; remainder of the back, the 

 upper tail-coverts, and the tail dark leaden grey ; the tail has 

 a broad terminal bar and a less sharply defined narrower one 

 about the middle black ; under surface of the body deep 

 leaden grey (the feathers of the chest sometimes partially 

 edged with vinous, probably a mark of immaturity) ; under 

 tail-coverts darker, often shading almost into black ; under 

 surface of the tail uniform slat}^ black ; under wing-coverts 

 leaden grey ; under surface of the quills dark brown ; iris 

 pale yellow when immature, changing to red in the adult ; 

 bill dusky slate-colour, with the cere white ; legs red, pow- 

 dered with white between the scales. Total length 12*5 

 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 9*2, tail 4*8, tarsus 1-05. 



Hab. S. Africa. 



This species, as far as we know, is confined to South Africa, 

 and has not yet been recorded from the whole of that sub- 

 region. It lives in flocks, and much resembles C. livia in 

 its habits. It is abundant in Cape Colony, Great Namaqua 

 and Damara Land, and also, at least at certain seasons, 

 plentiful in Kafl'raria, Natal, and the Transvaal. I think it 

 highly probable that the C. guineensis, Bocage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 381, belongs to this species, and consequently that it is 



