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Show 480 DR. R- B. SHARPE ON BIRDS [May 21, a. d ad. Milmil, July 2, 1894. b. d ad. Sibbe, July 3, 1894. c. 2 ad. The Haud, July 24, 1894. d. d ad. Okoto, Sept. 8, 1894. Iris dark brown; legs dark grey. It is very interesting to find a race of the South-African N. capensis in Somali-land, as the N.E.-African N afer or Reichenow's N. nigritemporalis might have been expected. I can find no difference between the Somali and Cape examples beyond the conspicuously smaller size of the former and a certain degree of more white at the tips of the inner primaries. The same small race occurs in the Teita district, where a specimen was procured by Sir Robert Harvey. 68. PRIONOPS CRISTATUS. Prionops poliocephalus (nee Stanl.); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 403 ; id. P. Z. S. Prionops cristatus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 601. «. d ad. The Haud, July 24, 1894. Iris and eyelid straw-yellow ; legs coral-red. 69. EUROCEPHALUS RUEPPELLI. Eurocephedus rueppelli, Bp.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 487; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 280 (1877) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 403 ; Oust. t. c. p. 5 (1886) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 243 (1888); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 160 (1894). «. d ad. Milmil, July 28, 1894. b. Juv. Milmil, July 28, 1894. c, 2 ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 29, 1894. Iris dark brown; eyelids fleshy, black in colour. The young bird from Milmil has the crown of the head brown, the hinder crown aud nape creamy white, the back has obscure pale edges to the feathers, and the wing-coverts are distinctly margined with sandy buff, as also are the inner secondaries. The ear-coverts also are white, with the fore part of the face black, and some black mottlings on the side of the neck. Ruppell met with this species in Sboa, and Heuglin obtained several examples from the Upper White Nile, south of 9° N. lat. in February and March. Dr. Ragazzi also found it at Assakalel in Shoa, and Antinori noticed the species near Jerarudda in the Somali-Isa district. According to Dr. Reichenow, this species is widely distributed in East Africa, and he gives the names of many localities between Ugogoand Speke Gulf on the Victoria Nyanza. 70. BRADYORNIS PUMILUS, n. sp. B. similis B. murino,^ conspicue minor, et secundariis latefulvo marginatis. Long. tot. 5*9 poll., culm. 0*6, «7ce 3*2, caudce 2*45, tarsi 0*85. «. d ad. Hargeisa, July 17, 1894. |