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Show 1895.] ON BIRDS FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 457 CYCLOPHORIDiE. Genus. Cyclophorus (Cyclohelix) Helicacea brought forward Total Common. •• 2 1 3 5 8 Andaman. 2 4 3 3 i 4 1 4 1 23 51 74 Nicobar. 5 2 5 2 1 2 2 Q O 1 1 i' 219 43 72 Total. 7 6 8 5 1 2 3 7 1 1 1 6 1 49 88 137 7. On a Collection of Birds made by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his recent Expedition in Western Somaliland. By R. BOWDLER SHARPE, LL.D., F.L.S., &c [Eeceived June 24, 1895.] (Plates XXVII. & XXVIII.) The collection made by Dr. Donaldson Smith has proved to be of great importance, and some of his discoveries have been extremely interesting. The country through which he passed after leaving the Shebeh River has never been explored by a naturalist, and the result of Dr. Donaldson Smith's expedition has been to make us acquainted with quite a number of new species. The route taken has been described by the explorer in the ' Geographical Journal' for February of the present year (pp. 124-127), where a map of the country is given. Starting from the Shebeli River, Dr. Smith marched in a northwesterly direction over gradually rising ground, till he reached an elevation of more than 5000 feet, and at Gineh, where he stayed for some time, the height is 6920 feet. In this neighbourhood and on the Darro Mountains (8000 feet) he obtained several of his most interesting birds, as also in the vicinity of Sheik Husein and Sheik Mahomed. This exploration of Dr. Donaldson Smith's enables us to make a comparison of the avifauna of Western Somali-land with that of Abyssinia and Shoa and with that of the more southern regions of the Lake Country, and also of East Africa. I have therefore |