from the Ethiopian Region. 291 



feeding on the ground. Swainson (Nat. Lib. xxiii. ]>. 186) de- 

 scribes specimens of this bird from West Africa as having 

 '^ upper covers and tail brown, glossed with green." In the 

 specimen that I procured the upper coverts are marked with 

 longitudinal lines of pale fulvous brown, as are also the basal 

 part of the tail-feathers. Neither are the greater scapulars and 

 the tips of the lesser quills banded with dusky black. 



17. QEna capensis (Linn ). 



This beautiful little Dove was very common at Mo9ambic, 

 concealed during the heat of the day, but flying swiftly through 

 the cocoa-nut groves in the morning and evening. 



18. NUMIDA MITRATA, Pall. 



This and the following species were given to me by Dr. Kirk 

 at Zanzibar, which island they inhabit. 



19. NuMiDA pucHERANi, Hartl. 



I brought four of these birds alive to the Cape ; but as I was 

 unable, from illness, to attend to them when there, three 

 died and one escaped, or I should have forwarded them to 

 England. I fancy that they must be pretty hardy, as the one 

 that got away is now living on the mountain-side at the back 

 of Simon's Town, where it must be put to severe shifts to get a 

 living amongst the parched bushes and rocks, besides which it 

 survived six weeks' cunfinement on board ship. I sent the 

 skins to Mr. Layard, who writes to me, " Dr. Kirk, in epistold, 

 names this bird N. pucherani; it differs from my N. cristata 

 obtained at Fazy and elsewhere ; but I have no description to 

 refer to"*. 



20. Squatarola helvetica (Linn.). 



Common at Zanzibar, where I procured young birds in 

 November. 



21. Ardea bubulcus, Savigny. 



Many of these birds, in breeding-plumage, flew on board the 

 ship, apparently from Madagascar, when we were about 150 



* [Dr. Hartlaub's description is given Joiirn. fiu'Orn. 1800, p. ;^j41. Cf. 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 12(3.— Ed.] 



