from Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 7 



majority of the farms where there were a good number of 

 trees. We did not discover the nest, but it was said to breed 

 near by the Boers, who seemed to be very fond of the birds, 

 and did not like them to be shot.] 



6. Stigmatopelia senegalensis. 



Turtur senegalensis (Linn.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp. 568, 

 854 (1884) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 448 (1893) ; Reichen, t. c. 

 p. 406 (1901). 



Stigmatopelia senegalensis, Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 80 (1 899) . 



a. <J. Deelfontein, March 18, 1902. Bill black; feet 

 claret-coloured ; iris hazel. 



[A male was taken in March. We did not see more than 

 three examples during the time that we were at Deelfontein.] 



7. (Ena capensis. 



(Ena capensis (Linn.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp. 572, 851 

 (1884) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 501 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. 

 p. 83 (1899) ; Reichenow, t. c. p. 429 (1901) ; Sharpe, Bull. 

 B.O.C. xii. p. 2 (1901). 



a. $ ad. Deelfontein, Jan. 12, 1901. 



b, c. S ? ad. Deelfontein, Feb. 12-28, 1902. 



d. $ ; e,f. ? juv. Deelfontein, March 22, 1902. Feet 

 greyish brown. 



g, h, i. <£ ; k. ? ad. Deelfontein, May 15-22, 1902. 



I, m. S ? ad. Deelfontein, Nov. 5-12, 1902. 



The young killed in March are spangled in the usual 

 way with white spots at the end of the feathers, which shew 

 a black sub-terminal bar, and as the birds are then moulting 

 it follows that the first plumage is brown like that of the 

 adults and that the first full plumage is grey above and on the 

 throat and chest ; the cross-band on the back is white, and 

 the metallic wing-spot uniform steel-blue, not purple or 

 puce-colour. This spot varies a good deal, a fact un- 

 doubtedly due, as Mr. Grant points out, to fading and change 

 of the metallic lustre. All fully adult birds have the band 

 across the back rufescent or isabelline brown, not whitish. 

 By the end of May the moult has been completed, and the 

 new plumage is very grey. 



