by ^fr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 31 



633. TURTURCGNA DELAGOKGUEI. 



Z. Ngoye Hills (2). 



[I have only seen tliis Dove iu two localities — in the Ngoye 

 Hills, where I obtained the pair securefl, and on another 

 occasion when I saw a solitary specimen in a thick patch of 

 forest under Sucl's Kop in the Woodbnsh of the Northern 

 Transvaal. The two I shot in Zululand are undoubtedly a pair, 

 for although the female was taken four days after the male, I 

 saw her every day in the same tree where I had seen them on 

 the first day, but until the fourth day Avas unable to get a sure 

 shot. At the time I first noticed them the male was courting 

 the hen bird, walking backwards and forwards along a bi'ancli, 

 filling out his chest and cooing like an ordinary tame Pigeon. 



In the male the irides are yellow ; bill pale slaty ; legs and 

 toes crimson. The female has the irides yellow ; bill pale 

 slaty ; legs and toes pale crimson.] 



03 f. TURTUR SEMITOKQUATUS. 



Z. Sibudeni, Jan. (2); Jususie Valle}^, Nov. (1) ; 

 Umfolosi Station, July (2) ; Tv. Klein Letaba, Sept. (2) ; 

 Legogot, Apl. (!) ; P. Coguno, June (3); Beira, Dec. (1) ; 

 Tetc, Sept. (1). 



I should have expected the birds from Beira and Tete to 

 be referable to T. anibiguus. There are examples from the 

 last-named locality in the British Museum so named. But 

 Grant's Tete bird has no trace of white on the under tail- 

 coverts, and the abdomen is of quite as dark a slate-colour 

 as in the Zululand bird. In these respects it differs from 

 Kirk's Tete bird, which I suspect was really procured else- 

 where. 



[" Ijuba " of the Zulus. 



In working from the Cape northwards and eastwards I 

 first noted the species at Sibudeni and the Jususie Valley iu 

 Western Zululand, afterwards finding it in every locality 

 visited in Zululand, Natal, the Transvaal, and in Portuguese 

 East Africa from Coguno to the Zambesi. Where found it 

 was quite one of the commonest Pigeons, and after the harvest 

 has been gathered in the native lands immense numbers con- 

 gregate iu the earlv morning and late afternoon to feed on the 



