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.— WV. /.] 
SCANSORES. 
Fam. PSITTACIDA. 
152. PaLaornis ToRQuatus (Bodd.). 
Paleornis cubicularis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 95. no. 385; 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. 
6. 2. Bejook. July 15 (mo. 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.— WV. J.] 
153. PIoNIAs MEYERI (Riipp.). 
Psittacus meyeri, Riipp. Atlas, t. 11; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 94. no. 380. 
Pionus meyeri, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 468 ; td. 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. $. Kokai. July 9 (no. 560). 
c. 6. Kokai. July 10 (no. 628). 
d. 2. Kokai. July 10 (no. 518). 
e. 2. Kokai. July 11. 
f. &. Kokai. July 11 (no. 1436). 
g. 2. Kokai. July 12 (no. 1740). 
h. 2. Waliko. July 20 (no. 1191). 
[Kye brown, with an outer ring of orange-red. 
Only met with by me on the Anseba.—W. J. | 
