266 Mr.T. Ayres on the Ornithology of Transvaal. 
[In one of the specimens sent the crown of the head is 
bluish grey, darkest in front and pale on the occiput; in the 
other, which is probably not in such full plumage, the dark 
portion of the crown is tinged with brown and minutely 
freckled. There is also a curious difference in the dark 
transverse barring on the rectrices of these two specimens: in 
the first the central pair have two narrow bars of similar size 
on a freckled ground; in the next pair the ground is less 
freckled, and the upper bar is narrower and less distinct, while 
the bar nearest to the tip is broader; the remaining rectrices 
have but one transverse bar, broad and terminal, and are very 
slightly freckled, and only just above the cross bar; in the 
second specimen the central pair of rectrices have three dark 
cross bars of equal size on a freckled ground, and all the other 
rectrices have two cross bars, of which one is subterminal 
and the broader of the two, the basal portion of the feather 
being but very slightly freckled. Mr. Layard, in his descrip- 
tion of this species, says that the tail is “ barred with four 
cross bars” (vide ‘ Birds of South Africa,’ p. 285).—J. H. G.] 
Cursorius Bicinctus, Temm. Double-banded Courser. 
Male and female, shot 8th October, breeding on the open 
flats near Potchefstroom. Inrides umber; bill dusky brown, 
with the basal part of the lower mandible palish flesh-colour ; 
tarsi and feet dingy white. 
JEGIALITIS TRICOLLARIS (Vieill.). Three-collared Plover. 
Female, shot 22nd May. Inides dusky tawny brown; eye- 
lid deep orange; bill black at the tip, but the basal parts 
brownish orange; tarsi and feet pale, suffused with dusky. 
Male, shot 20th August. Irides light tawny brown ; eye- 
lid bright vermilion ; bill black at the tip, but with the basal 
part rose-pink ; tarsi and feet yellowish pale. 
Male, shot 12th September. Similar to the preceding 
specimen, but with the tarsi and feet ashy pale. 
Female, breeding, shot Ist October. Irides light tawny 
brown ; eyelid bright red ; bill with the basal part rose-red, the 
tip dusky black, and the ridge dusky ; tarsi and feet dingy 
chrome-yellow. 
