from Deelfoulcin } Cape Colony. 305 



[Very common with us all the year, coming in large 

 flocks to roost at the farms ; it is also very partial to 

 bamboo-clumps for roosting. It is a very noisy bird. The 

 eggs and young are destroyed by the Boers, who declare 

 that they do great damage to the fruit. They thrive well in 

 captivity, if fed on meat, and we found them an attractive 

 bait for the trapping of lynxes and wild cats. The nest was 

 in the hole of a \\ all or "shirt," and, when first built by the 

 parent birds, w r as made of green materials and was very 

 damp. Three or four eggs were laid.] 



120. Creatophora carunculata. 



Dilophus carunculatus (Gm.); Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp.421, 

 845 (1875-84) ; id. Cat. B. xiii. p. 01 (1890; ; Stark, Faun. 

 S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 23 (1900). 



Perissornis carunculatus Oberh.; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 

 ii. p. 070 (1903). 



Creatophora carunculata Lesson, Compl. Buff. ed. Levecpue, 

 xx. p. 308 (1847) ; Richmond, Auk, xix. p. 92. 



a, b. cJ ? ad. Deelfontein, Feb. 23, 1902. 



c, d, e. £ . „ March 5, 1902. 



f,g. <? ; h. ? ad. „ May 21, 1902. 



i-L <J ; m, n. ? ad. „ June 13, 1902. 



o, p. <? ? ad. „ Oct. 29, 1902. 



The moult seems to last some time, as specimens killed in 

 February, March, May, and June are all moulting to a greater 

 or less extent. This is probably due to the fact of the bird 

 rearing two broods. Only one adult male with wattles is 

 in the collection ; this is the specimen shot on the 29th of 

 October. Young males seem to have the bare part of the 

 orbits and throat yellow as in the old females. One " female" 

 bird procured on the 21st of May shews a white primary- 

 covert, but I think that there has been a mistake in the sexing 

 of this specimen, which seems to be a young male. 



[Boer name " Green Spreuw " or " Sprinken Spreuw/' 

 These birds are found all the year round. They are like Spreo 

 bicolor in habits, and come to roost with them, though not 

 in such large flocks. Their flight, however, is like that of 



