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STREPTOPELIA CAPICOLA (Sund.). Cape Turtle Dove. 
This Dove and Turtur senegalensis are very common about 
Rustenburg ; enough for a pie may be got at any time in an 
hour or two. 
CoLuMBA arquatrix, Temm. Rameron Pigeon. 
I found this Pigeon scattered rather sparsely amongst the 
Magaliesbergen during the winter months; and, according 
to my brother, it is not much more plentiful in summer : they 
are generally solitary birds; but I once saw about twenty 
together. 
CoLtuMBa PH#oNOTA, Gray. Roussard Pigeon. 
These Pigeons were pretty common about the same dis- 
trict as the preceding species ; and I saw them in pairs and 
shot some young birds amongst the ravines and precipitous 
clefts of the rocks, where, without doubt, they breed, and 
where I frequently heard their deep notes. 
349. PHALACROTRERON DELALANDII, Bon. Delalande’s 
Pigeon. 
I found these handsome Pigeons somewhat scarce in the 
Magaliesbergen in winter; but my brother tells me that they 
are exceedingly plentiful there during our summer months, 
when wild fruits abound; they are fond of densely foliaged 
trees, keeping very quiet if any one approaches; and often 
one may walk quietly right under the trees where they are, 
when they dash out suddenly, generally one at a time. They 
are sometimes solitary, but often in small flocks; their food 
consists entirely of small berries; and for the pot they are 
not by any means to be despised. 
FRANCOLINUS SWAINSONI, Smith. Swainson’s Francolin. 
Female, Rustenburg, 26th June. Biull black, but with the 
lower mandible and basal corners of the upper mandible 
scarlet ; bare skin about the eye and throat scarlet ; tarsi and 
feet black. 
This species is exceedingly numerous in some parts of Ma- 
galiesbergen along the banks of the Crocodile or Limpopo 
River, and of the Eland’s River, amongst the mountains. 
