observed in Northern Somali-land. 85 



was previously known to exist, one of them having come to 

 an untimely cud ? 



I have named this new Crow after jNIiss Edith Cole, who 

 accompanied our party to Somali-land. 



47. ViNAGO WAALTA (Gm.) ; Sulvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus- 

 xxi. p. 15. 



Wherever the huge fig-tree is to be found these lovely 

 Pigeons make their home in the thick branches, finding not 

 only a plentiful supply of food, but also the grateful shade 

 which seems essential to them. I have never seen them 

 flying about except in the cool of the evening or when 

 disturbed. Indeed, so loath are they to leave the shade 

 that I have often known them to sit motionless without 

 betraying their presence for more than an hour while we 

 have been eating luncheon below, when suddenly, as if 

 unable to bear their enforced stillness any longer, they 

 would dash out with a whirr-r-r of wings that was quite 

 startling. 



48. Pternistes leucoscepus (Gray) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 181, pi. viii. (1893). 



Fairly common wherever there is thick undergrowth. It 

 is very noisy at sunrise and sunset, its cry being a harsh 

 grating sound, which it repeats over and over again. At 

 such times it may be seen in the little open glades, but it 

 will take covert again the moment it thinks itself observed. 

 It is capital eating, and will rise well once, but is difficult to 

 flush a second time. We found several nests in March 

 and April containing from seven to ten eggs, the shells of 

 which arc so hard that one can rattle them about together 

 Avithout the least fear of their breaking. When once caught 

 these birds are very easily tamed, and 1 was fortunate enough 

 in 1884 to bring home alive a pair of this species as well 

 as a pair of Francolinus granti, which were, I believe, the 

 first ever received by the Zoological Society. 



49. Francolinus granti, Hartl. ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 148 (1893). 



This little "Partridge'^ is far oftener seen than Pter- 



