LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
Tlie Namaqua Land, where Leyaillant collected many of his 
birds, being adjacent to the Damara country on the south, it is 
interesting to recognize in this collection several of his species, 
which are unknown in the Cape colony, and some of which have 
been hitherto recorded on his authority alone. Dr. Andrew Smith 
also penetrated in the same direction ; and we accordingly find 
many of the Damara Birds delineated in his Illustrations of the 
Zoology of Southern Africa. 
It is remarkable, that among the sixty-two species of birds from 
Cafifraria, described by Prof. Sundevall in the “ ofversigt af Kongl. 
Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forliandlingar,” 1850, p. 97, there is not 
one which I have been able to identify in the Damara collection. 
This fact shows, that as is the case of South America, the birds 
of Southern Africa are to a great extent limited to special locali- 
ties ; a circumstance which of course greatly increases the nume- 
rical richness of the fauna. Prof. Sundevall estimates the total 
amount of the Ornithology of the South African continent at iOO 
species. — H. E. S. 
1. Milvus parasiticus, Daud. ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 22. 
2. Accipiter gabar, Daud. ; Ois. Af. pi. 33. 
3. Accipiter niger, Vieill. ; Gal. Ois. pi. 22; (A. carbonarius, 
Licht.) Vieillot describes it as only 9 (French) long, but my spe- 
cimen (probably a $) measures 12 (English.) 
4. Tinnunculus rupicolus (Daud.) 
5. Scops leucotis , Tern., pi. col. 16. 
6. Scops senegalensis, Swains. Birds West. Af. v. 1. p- 12'- 
This species is quite distinct from Scops zorca of Europe. c 
wing measures only 5.1, while that of S. zorca is 6, an t e 
ences in the length of the primaries, indicated by Swainson, appe 
to be constant. 
7. Athene licua (Licht.); Verz. SaUg. u. Yog., aus dem Kaffern- 
lande, p. 12. 
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