280 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
very peculiar, sounding like a note from a bassoon. It is difficult to judge of the 
whereabouts of the bird by it, as it now sounds far, now near, as though some ventrilo- 
quist was at work. I cannot help associating the membrane in the casque with the 
note, though I do not know if there be any communication between the throat and the 
casque ; a section of the head and casque, however, would decide this. I have seen this 
bird on trees, though seldom; it feeds principally on grubs and insects, which it digs up 
with its pickaxe-like beak. I rarely saw more than two together.— IV. J.] 
SCANSORES. 
Fam. PSITTACID. 
152. PALaornis ToRQUATUS (Bodd.). 
Paleornis cubicularis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 95. no. 335; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 473. 
torquatus, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 192; Brehm, Habesch, p. 220. no. 110; Finsch, 
Papag. ii. p. 17; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 871. no. 457. 
a. 3. Bejook. July 14. 
b. 2. Bejook. July 15 (no. 1806). 
c. 2. Bejook. July 16 (no. 1261). 
d. 2. Bejook. July 16. 
[Iris yellowish white; beak deep crimson at base, tip black. 
Common on the Anseba, did not meet with it anywhere else.—W. J.] 
153. Pionias MeyuRI (Ripp.). 
Psittacus meyeri, Rupp. Atlas, t. 11; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 94. no. 330. 
Pionus meyeri, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 468 ; id. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 193. 
Pionias meyeri, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 494; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 500. no. 270. 
a. Kokai. July 9 (no. 1488). 
b. 3. Kokai. July 9 (no. 560). 
c. d. Kokai. July 10 (no. 628). 
d. 2. Kokai. July 10 (no. 518). 
e. 9. Kokai. July 11. 
f. d. Kokai. July 11 (no. 1436). 
g. 2. Kokai. July 12 (no. 1740). 
h. 2. Waliko. July 20 (no. 1191). 
[Eye brown, with an outer ring of orange-red. 
Only met with by me on the Anseba.— W. J. } 
