308 Mr. C. F. M..Swynnerton on the 
rather the commoner type, somewhat brighter generally 
with a pure white forehead; I have supposed that the 
latter might possibly be H. johnstoni Shelley (Ibis, 1893, 
p. 25, pl. 1il.). 
These Doves appear to be single-brooded, commencing to 
lay early in January with the ripening of the “ Umkuhlu” 
seeds (Trichilia dregeana). This is a most unfortunate time, 
for the forest is then filled with women and children 
gathering the seeds in baskets for the purpose of oil-making, 
who, though they do not themselves eat the eggs, take all 
that they can find, beating them up and cooking them as 
food for their infants: they also use the eggs of this bird, 
of Tympanistria, and of other large species for anointing 
swellings of a venereal nature with a view to reducing 
the inflammation. 
The nest is a flimsy and transparent platform of small 
sticks, placed in a shrub or sapling at a distance of from six 
to fifteen feet from the ground; the eggs, of the usual 
elliptical form, two in number and creamy white in colour, 
measure from 29 to 31 mm. in length by about 23 in breadth. 
One of the birds in my aviary (a brightly-coloured individual) 
commenced to build at the end of December, and would 
quite likely have bred had it not been killed by some Duikers 
which I had placed in the same building. Length in the 
flesh 10°75 to 11°12 inches. Iris, legs and feet, eyelids and 
patch in front of eye carmine; bare skin round the eye, 
soles and back of the tarsi pale grey ; bill black. The call 
is a deep “iwoo/ iwoo!” 
slowly. 
usually repeated several times, 
168. TympanistRIA BicoLor. ‘Tambourine Dove. 
This charming little Dove is hardly less common in Chirinda 
than the preceding species, which it resembles in its shy and 
retiring habits, in its food, and, according to a native in- 
formant, in its time of nesting. Last November, however, | 
was shown a nest in course of construction, so that possibly 
two broods are reared in the year; it was a flimsy struc- 
ture of twigs, with a little moss, and was placed somewhat 
