AFES. 415 



tree. The dimensions are : wing 2'65 in., tail 1"9, tarsus 

 0*54, bill from forehead 0"37, whole length about 4*25 in. 



222., S. nigriceps, Eiipp. 



Kiipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 96, t. xxxiv. t 2 ; Syst. Uebers. No. 287.— 



Lefebyre, p. 118. 

 FringiMa, nigriceps, HengL Joum. £ Om. 1868, p. 93. 



Only seen at considerable elevations, but very common 

 on the passes above 9,000 feet. It appears to belong 

 to the Subalpiae fauna, though a specimen was shot 

 by my collector at Adigrat. It was always met with 

 in flocks, keeping to open ground, and often seen on 

 ploughed fields. 



Obdek GEMITOBES. 

 Family COLTTMBID^ 



223. Columba guinea, L. 



Liimeens, Syst Nat. ed, 12», p. 282. — Salt, No. 47, App. p. xlviii. 

 —Eiipp. Syst. TJebers. No. 363. 



Iris bronze yellow within near the pupil, copper 

 colour externally. 



This bird lives about rocks, also on Kolqual trees, around 

 churches, and probably occasionally about houses. It is 

 often seen in flocks in the fields. In the passes below 

 Senaf^ it was not observed below 4,000 feet, but in the 

 Lebka it occurred at only 2,000 feet above the sea. 



I should scarcely call it a domestic Pigeon, as some 

 writers do. It certainly is not nearly so constantly seen 

 about villages as C. intermedia is in India, though it 

 is often met with in the neighbourhood of houses. 



