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taken by a negro boy in mid-day from a branch 

 of a mango tree, with a noose fastened to a short 

 stick. It was young, but a flier. Its mother came 

 to look for it, and we caught her, and kept her some 

 days. When liberated she would not move off many 

 yards from the house, but was seen daily for a few 

 weeks. When a prisoner it would eat cockroaches 

 thrown down to it, and if handled was cruel and 

 spiteful, otherwise quiet and apparently very gentle. 

 There are plenty of them here. I listen to their 

 sulky wow, often in the watches of the night." 



Perhaps the present species may be " the small 

 wood Owle" of Sloane, ii. 296. 



FAM. HIRUNDINID^. (The Swallows.) 



RINGED GOWRIE.* 



Acanthylis collaris ? 



? Cypselus collaris, PR. MAX. Temm. PI. col. 195. 



" As this bird seldom alights, it is furnished with 

 two supernumerary bones, which are placed on the 

 superior and exterior part of the leg ; the skin that 

 covers them is of an obscure flesh-colour ; they are 

 of an oblong ovated form, one fourth of an inch 



* " Length 8 inches, expanse 20, wings reaching 2-J beyond the tail, 

 tail 3, rictus f , beak from feathered part to tip f, tarsus f , middle toe , 

 claw f , inner toe equal to the middle one. 



** Irides deep hazel [" blacker than the pupil," Mr. Johnston ;] beak 

 black, polished, a little hooked ; nostrils large, oval: eyes large, deep 



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