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178, ToTaNUs GLAREOLA. Wood-Sandpiper. 
Obtained by Mr. Stanley near Mafusi’s. 
179. LoBivANELLUS LATERALIS. Wattled Plover. 
Comparatively common along streams and vleis throughout 
the high veld. 
180. Struruio austRAtts. Southern Ostrich. 
The Ostrich is said to be abundant south of the Um- 
swirezi. 
XITI.—Notes on the Parrots. (Part VIII.) 
By T. Sarvapor:1, H.M.B.O.U.* 
Fam. V. Psirracipz. 
Subfam. Prarycurcin# (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xx. p. 539). 
Pratycercus Vig. 
PLATYCERCUS ELEGANS (Gm.); North+, Rec. Austr. Mus. 
V. pp. 265 (xanthochroism), 266 (melanism) (1904). 
Platycercus elegans x P. eximius North; ten p..267- 
PLATYCERCUS NIGRESCENS Rams.; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. 
p. 37, n. 4 (1900). 
Platycercus elegans nigrescens Rob. & Laver. Ibis, 1900, 
p- 645 (Bellenden Ker), 
Robinson and Laverock mentioned several specimens of 
this race as having the feathers of the head, hind-neck, and 
back not almost black, as stated by Ramsay, but dark red, 
and uniform in colour with the lower surface. 
PLarycERCUS AMATHUSIA Bp.; Rob. & Laver. Ibis, 1900, 
p. 645; Le Souef, Emu, iii. p. 55 (eggs) (1908). 
“ Like many specimens of its near ally, P. pallidiceps, the 
present species is frequently irregularly flecked with red 
about the head.” (Rod, & Laver.) 
* Concluded from p. 141. 
t Cf “On Heterochrosis in Australian Psittaci” (Rec. Austr. Mus. Va 
pp. 265-268, 1904). 
