264 BIKDS OF SO'UTH AFRICA. 



and frequenting the tops of the highest trees, they are very difficult to 

 obtain. Sundevall doubts their ever reaching South Africa ; and I 

 have never heard of any being seen here of late years, at all events. 



517. Columba Canmculata, Temm., Pig. t, 2 ; 



Le Colombi-galline, Le Vail., No. 278 ; Cuv., Vol. 

 3, p. 72 ; Goura Oarunculata, Shaw, Vol. 11, p. 123. 



GENERAL colour, slaty-blue, with a white rump ; large wattles 

 pendant from the bill, and extending along the chin, crimson. 

 Stated by Le Yaillant, loc. cit., to inhabit Namaqualand ; but Sun- 

 devall shows that two specimens from Le Vaillant's collection now 

 exist in the Leyden Museum, which are nothing more than the com- 

 mon European C. Livia, with false wattles attached. 



518. Columba Hottentota, Temm., Pig. t., 15 ; 



Columba Gularis, Wagler ; Le Colombi-Caille, Le 

 Vail., No. 283 ; Cuv., Vol. 3, p. 75 ; Shaw, Vol. 11, 

 p. 131. 



GENERAL colour above, deep- red; forehead, chin, and throat, 

 white ; under parts, grey-brown, with scale-like markings 

 of black, bordered with white. Leagth about five inches. 



This species, stated by Le Vaillant to inhabit the mountains of 

 Great Namaqualand, is affirmed by Sundevall to be fictitious. 



