'Cape of Good Hope', list of birds collected by John Forbes

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Scope & content: List of birds collected from Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] and Cape of Good Hope [South Africa], with the beginning of the list missing, numbered (specimens 9-50), some unnamed, with a brief description. Includes a species of Certhia ('Simon's Bay [South Africa], feed on the nectar from Protea melifera [Protea repens]'), a species of 'Corvus?', Crotophaga ani ('irids [iris] brownish black'), Alauda capensis [Macronyx capensis] ('irids dark brown') and a species of Columba ('irids reddish brown') [here the list includes 36 more birds]