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COLUMBID^ 



(ENA 



In South Africa it is generally distributed throughout, though 

 much more abundant in the dryer western and central portions. It 

 appears to be partially migratory, as although it has been met with 

 in the western Transvaal and German South-west Africa throughout 

 the year, it visits, so far as our records go, Cape Colony and Natal 

 only in summer. 



Pig. 55. — QSna capensis. 



The following are recorded localities with dates : Cape Colony — 

 Cape division, December, Tulbagh, December, Worcester, December, 

 Beaufort West, October, Hanover, September (S. A. Mus.), Wel- 

 lington in Paarl division, January (Shelley), Deelfontein, resident 

 (Seimund), Orange River near Upington, January (Bradshaw), 

 near Aliwal North (Whitehead), Hay divison, September, December 

 (Burehell), Harts Eiver, January (Ayres), Oudtshoorn, December 

 (Victorin), King William's Town (Trevelyan) ; Natal — Ladysmith and 

 Blaauw Krantz Eiver, November (Eeid), Zululand, October (Wood- 

 ward Bros.) ; Orange Eiver Colony — Kroonstad (Symonds), Vrede- 

 fort Eoad (B. Hamilton) ; Transvaal — Potchefstroom, January, May 

 and July (Ayres), near Wolmeranstad, July (B. Hamilton), Upper 

 Limpopo, July (Oates), near Johannesburg (Haagner) ; Bechuana- 



