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claw longer than in Rüppell's figure of bis Anthus sordidus, tlie 

 Litter also rather longer than in specimens from Abyssinia and from 

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

 also a shade more rufescenfc, have less distinct palé supercilia, and the 

 penulfcimate tail-feather has a well deíined palé mark at tip, which is 

 nofc the case with the Cape specimens. 



Lanius collaris, L. 2. 



Telophonus bacbakiri, (Shaw). 



Merula olivácea, (L.) 



Columba arquatrix, (L.) 2. 



^Eíta capensis, (L.) 



*PTEROCLES NAMAQUA, (Gm.) 2. 



Francolinus (Schloptera) afee, (Latham.) 



Strethio cameles, L. Chick. Also imperfecfc skin of a superb 

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

 which at Cape-tovvn is £5. 



*Choriotis cristata, (Se.) : Otis ~kori y 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. Fauw (or ' Peacock') of the Dutch 

 colonists. 



# (Edicnemus capensis, Licht. 



Stephanibis coronata, (L.). 



*Hoplopterus specioses, (Wagler). 



*Charadrius marginates (?), Vieillot. 



# Rhynchea capensis, (L.). By no means satisfactorily distin- 

 guishable from Rh. bengalensis. 



Felica cristata, Gm. 



*Porzana nigra, (Gmelin). 



*Larus (Gabiantts, Bonap,) pacifices, Lath. Adult. Rather 

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

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

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



Phaüton jethebeus, L. 



*Phalacrocorax capensis, (Sparrman). 



*Hypoleecus melanogenis, nobis, n. s. Very like H. varitjs, 

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



