from Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 13 



a, b, c. g ; d. ? ad. ; e. Jr. Deelfontein, Feb. 27-28, 

 1902. 



A very old male has an inclination to a dull rufous collar 

 round the hind-neck, and the breast rich fawn-buff, while 

 the ashy fore-neck and chest are also pervaded with buff, 

 the line encircling the throat being well pronounced. The 

 immature birds have all completed their moult, and are to be 

 recognised by a few sandy-rufous edgings to the feathers of 

 the crown, and the light sandy margins of the chest-feathers. 

 The black collar round the throat is also incomplete. 



[Large flocks of these Pratincoles visited us in February, 

 following a small dark brown beetle, of which their crops 

 were full. They only stayed a few days.] 



19. CEdicnemus capensis. 



(Edicnemus capensis Licht. ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp. 615, 

 855 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. xxiv. p. 15 (1896) ; id. Hand-1. B. 

 i. p. 172 (1899) ; Reichenow, t. c. p. 198 (1900). 



a. ? ad. Deelfontein, March 10, 1902. 



b, c, d. ? ad. „ April 3, 23, 27, 1902. 

 e. <J ad. „ May 30, 1902. 



/. S ad. „ Sept. 17, 1902. 



A considerable amount of slight variation in the barri no- 

 occurs in this series, but nothing that seems to shew a 

 change or sequence of plumage. 



[The Dikkop, or Thickhead, is fairly common, visiting the 

 dams and manure-heaps at night to feed. The birds are very 

 tame and are good runners. Dozens of them used to come to 

 the rubbish-heaps at Deelfontein every night. The e°°-s 

 are two, laid in a slight hollow in the ground.] 



20. COMPSOTIS LEUCOPTERA. 



Otis afroides Smith ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp. 642, 855 

 (1884) ; Reichenow, t. c. p. 251 (1900). 



Compsotis leucoptera (Reichenb.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. xxiii. 

 p. 294 (1894) ; id. Hand-1. B. i. p. 74 (1899). 



a. S ad. Deelfontein. Feb. 4, 1901. 



b, c. S ad. „ April 18, 1902. 



[This Bustard was resident all the year in the district, and 

 certainly bred there, though we never managed to find the 



