460 Mr. J. H. Gurney on additional Species 



racter to the ecclesiologist and the architect, beautiful scenery 

 to the artist, and novel customs amidst an obliging and hos- 

 pitable people to the general tourist ; while to the naturalist in 

 every branch, the geologist, the botanist, the entomologist, the 

 zoologist generally, there is a rich harvest of facts to be reaped 

 in a field which, though so near our shores, and now so easy of 

 access, is perhaps less known to the travelling public than any 

 other region of Europe. 



XXXV. — A Ninth additional List of Birds from Natal*. 

 By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 



(Plate X.) 



The birds comprised in this list have, with the exception of the 

 first, been transmitted to me by my valued coi-respondent Mr. 

 Thomas Ayres, together with the following notes upon them 

 and upon some other species included in my previous lists of 

 the Birds of Natal. Many of the latter notes have been made 

 by Mr. Ayres in the Transvaal, and refer to species which are 

 found in the territory of that republic as well as in the colony 

 of Natal. As on previous occasions, my remarks are distin- 

 guished from those of Mr. Ayres by brackets and initials. 



An error having occurred in the enumeration of the species 

 in my former lists by the double insertion under difierent 

 names of one species, as before explained [antea, pp. 157, 158), 

 I commence the enumeration of the present list with 



307 A. Brachyotus palustris, Bp. Short-eared Owl. 



[Having previously mentioned [antea, p. 150) that the Zoologi- 

 cal Society of London possesses a Natal specimen of this Owl, I 

 only insert it here for the sake of including it in my enumeration 

 of the species which I have seen from that Colony. — J. H. G.] 



308. Cypselus gutturalis, Vieill. South-African Alpine 



Swift. 



Female. Iris dark hazel ; eye full ; bill black ; tarsi feathered, 



toes dusky. 



* Vide suprd, p. 40. 



