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ing the whole day, was perfedly ferene, and, 
what is infinitely rare, not a fingle cloud upon 
the Table mountain can^e to annoy us. 
Upon this occafion I experienced the enjoy- 
ment of a particular felicity 5 which was that 
of having killed, upon the platform of the 
inountain, a bird of a new fpecies, which, till 
that moment, I had not feen in Africa, and 
which I have never met with fince. It was 
the rock black-bird. I brought it with me to 
Europe ; it conftitutes at prefent an article In 
my collection, and will form, in the Ornithology 
that I fhall foon publifli, a new and interefting 
fpecies, not unworthy the attention of the 
naturalift. 
A bird killed fo near the town, and at the 
fame time new to all the inhabitants of the 
Cape, muft have been a ftranger to the place 
where I found it. 1 fufpedt it to have emigrated 
from that range of rocks and mountains, which, 
from their refemblance to thofe of the nortl^ 
of Europe, bear the name of the Norwegian 
mountains^ and which, detaching themfelves 
from the Table mountain, and ftretching to the 
fou(h, form what is called the fouthern po27it of 
Ajrica. Many perfons have had the curiofity 
to 
