280 Mr. T. Ayres on Trans -Vaal Ornithology. 



Top of head and crest bright rufous. Front and throat 

 brilliant green ; elongated feathers on the side of the neck 

 white, with small round spots of brilliant green. Back bright 

 grass-green. Rump dark red crossed by a white bar. Tail 

 rufous red, outer edges of the feathers dark green. Under- 

 parts dark gray, greenish on the flanks. Bill red. 



LoPHORNIS STICTOLOPHUS. 



Lophomis regime, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 95 ; id. Mon. 

 Troch. vol. iii. pi. 122 ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 84. 



Hab. Columbia. 



Top of head and crest bright red, the latter having several 

 rows of small round black spots. Throat and upper parts of 

 breast brilliant metallic green. Back dark green. Rump 

 dark red crossed by a white bar. Two central feathers glit- 

 tering green, outer ones dark rufous edged with dark green. 

 Underparts dark green. Under tail-coverts dark rufous. 

 Bill red. 



XXXIII. — Additional List of and Notes on Birds obtained in 

 the Republic of Trans-Vaal. By Thomas Ayres. (Com- 

 municated by John Henry Gurney.) 



[Continued from 'The Ibis,' 1871, p. 270.] 



[In communicating the following notes from the pen of my 

 friend Mr. Ayres, I am desirous of correcting an error for 

 which I am responsible, and which occurred in Mr. Ayres' s first 

 paper on Trans-Vaal birds, on page 292 of ' The Ibis ' for 1869. 

 The Zosterops there mentioned as Z. capensis should have 

 been given as Z. sundevalli, Hartl., and not as Z. capensis. — 

 J. H. G.] 



158. Erythropus amurensis, Radde. Eastern Red-footed 

 Hobby. 



In December 1870 my brother and I rode over to a lagoon 

 on Loup-spruit, some six miles from Potchefstroom, duck- 

 shooting, and there we found a lot of these pretty Falcons 

 hunting with much assiduity ; they were coursing backwards 



