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WOODS. — POPPY. — BIRDS. 
16 Sept. 
Along the bank I found a poppy * four feet in height, with 
a showy bright-red flower like that of our common English corn- 
poppy ; an interesting and unexpected discovery, in these southern 
latitudes, of a genus so decidedly northern. 
Birds in great variety inhabit these groves, and the sound of 
their various notes dispels every feeling of loneliness. Amidst this 
concert the ear is soothed with the cooing of doves, -f The only 
birds which I could procure, were a little noisy Barhet j, wliich the 
Hottentots called Hout Kappei^ (Wood-cutter), from the noise it 
makes with its beak against the branches of trees in search of 
insects : the beautiful Groene Spreeuw (Green Thrush) §, with another 
species |j, and a small bird ^, called Namaquas duif, (Namaqua 
Dove) a name which is also given to the Columba Capensis. 
The Hottentots, glad to shelter from the scorching sun, had 
thrown aside their karosses, and lay nearly naked in little groups in 
the shade : others were enjoying a bathe, of whom some swam 
fearlessly into the middle of the stream. Men and women with their 
calabashes, were continually ascending aad descending the steep 
pathway to the river, and the dogs, driven by the sultry heat, often 
came to quench their thirst, while the cattle at the same time, pro- 
tected from the sun, picked up abundance of fresh grass which grew 
here and there between the trees. 
* Papaver Gariepinum, C. G. 1633. Planta biennis spinoso-hispida, 4-pedalis. 
Folia inferiora elongata iobato-pinnatifida dentata. Flores coccineo-aurantiaci biunciales. 
Petala immaculata. 
At this station a new and distinct species of Lycimn was added to the Catalogue, 
also a Sinapis tripinnata, C. G. 1640. 
Bryonia Pianta facie Sisj/mhrii Sophice, tota 
Lcpidhm pubcscens erecta. Folia tripin- 
Nemesia natifida, laciniis inffiqualibus ob- 
Senecio tusis. Flores minuti flavi in race- 
Gnaphalium and, mis terminalibus. Siliquae glabrae. 
\ Columba risoria. 
X Pogonias Illig. Bucco^ nigey-, Gm. Sys. Nat. Le Barbii d gorge noir. — Le 
Vaill. Ois. de Paradis, Sfc. torn. 2. pi. 29 & 30. 
§ Turdus 7iitens. Linn. Syst. Nat. Lamprotornis, Temm. 
II Turdus Variete de Grivrou. Le V. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 100., where it is con- 
sidered to be a variety of Turdus olivaceus, Sys. Nat. ; but it is certainly a distinct species. 
^ Columba La Tourterelle maillee, Le V. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 270. 
