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claw longer than in KuppelTs figure of his Anthus sordidus, the 

 Litter also rather longer than in specimens from Abyssinia and from 

 the Punjab Salt Range (vide J. A. S. XXIV, 258). The latter are 

 also a shade more rufescent, have less distinct pale supercilia, and the 

 penultimate tail-feather has a well defined pale mark at tip, which is 

 not the case with the Cape specimens. 



Lanius coeiaris, L. 2. 



Tjelophots bacbakiri, (Shaw). 



Meeuba oeiyacea, (L.) 



COLEilBA AEQUATEIX, (L.) 2. 

 uEXA CAPJEBTSISj (L.) 

 # Pl£E0CLES :KAAIAQTTA, (Gm.) 2. 



Fean-colentjs (Schlopteea) aeeb, (Latham.) 



SiErTHlo cameles, L. Chick. Also imperfect skin of a superb 

 wild-shot male, with head and neck, wings, and tail ; the value of 

 which at Cape-town is £5. 



*Choeioxis ceistata, (Sc.) : Otis Tcori, Burchell. Head of a 

 specimen weighing 25 lbs. This is the largest of the Bustards, and 

 is immediately congeneric with the great Bustards of India, Ara- 

 bia, and Australia respectively. Pauw (or ' Peacock') of the Dutch 

 colonists. 



*GEdicinemes capensis, Licht. 



Stephaxebis coeo>"ata, (L.). 



*Hoploptebes speciosus, (Wagler). 



*Chaeadeius maegen'ates (?), Vieillot. 



*Ehy>~chea cape^sts, (L.). By no means satisfactorily distin- 

 guishable from Eh. beugalensis. 



Fulica ceistata, Gm. 



*Poezajsa. is'iGEA, (Gmelin). 



*Laetjs (Gabianes, Bonap,) pacieices, Lath. Adult. Eather 

 smaller than the Australian species figured by Gould under this name, 

 and without (?) the black bar on the tail. Tail mutilated. The late 

 Prince of Canino referred Gould's species to J. Georgi, King. 



Pha±!to:n~ ^etherees, L. 



*Phaeaceocoeax capeksis, (Sparrman). 



*Htpoeee"ctjs meeanogenis, nobis, n. s. Very like H. vaeius, 

 (Gm., Ph.. hypoleucos, Gould), of Australia, but distinguished by its 



