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what harsh and grating love-call of this species conld he 
heard at all times of the day, both in the city and suburbs, 
although it was not always easy to discover the exact position 
of the utterer. The call is something like the three syllables 
< kah-kay-whoo,’ with the last note much prolonged. The 
bird was evidently intending to breed everywhere, like our 
Wood-Pigeon in the parks of London and Paris. I also 
occasionally saw and heard a rather smaller Dove with a 
much softer and quite different call, which I take to have 
been Turtur senegalensis. 
“ The other birds that I most frequently noticed in the 
gardens at Capetown were the Cape Sparrow ( Passer 
arcuatus ), the Cape Wagtail ( Motacilla capensis ), and the 
Collared Shrike (. Lanius Conans'). 
“ The Cape Sparrow is certainly not nearly so abundant as 
its British representative in London, but seems to have 
nearly similar habits. It was commencing to breed in the 
gardens, and builds nests similar to those of its European 
ally. The Cape Wagtail may be seen pursuing insects on 
the w r ell-kept grass-plots surrounding the Parliament House, 
and is quite tame and familiar. 
“The Collared Shrike, which I saw every day on passing 
through the Municipal Gardens up to the Museum, shows 
its pied plumage well amongst the green foliage of the trees. 
It is a most ferocious little villain, and if care is not taken 
it will enter the verandas and kill the pet birds there 
suspended in their cages. Two instances of the death of 
canaries in this way occurred during my stay in Capetown. 
“The Olivaceous Thrush ( Turdus olivaceus), the f Sprew ' 
Starling ( Amydrus morio), the so-called Cape f Robin 3 ( Cos - 
sypha caffra), and the Bakbakiri Bush-Shrike ( Laniarius 
bakbakiri) are four other species that are occasionally seen 
in the gardens of the town and suburbs, but I should not 
call any one of them abundant. The Olivaceous Thrush picks 
about on the ground like our Song-Thrush, and the Bush- 
Shrike has somewhat similar habits, but attracts attention 
by a variety of sweet whistling notes and is said to have 
imitative faculties. 
