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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 5l3 Theristicus leucocephalus, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. (1894). a. d ad. Bainhou, Jan. 10, 1894. Iris white; ridge at base of upper mandible crimson ; cere black. Heuglin considers this species to be a resident in the southern portions of North-eastern Africa. It was tolerably common on the White and Blue Niles, as well as on the Sobat, and according to Ruppell it is.found on Lake Tana in Abyssinia. It does not apparently reach to Khartoum, but Heuglin once saw the species near Abu Haraz and on the Schiluk Islands. The species was not met with in Shoa by the Italian travellers, but Mr. Jackson has obtained it on the Victoria Nyanza, and Dr. Reichenow further records it from Ussambara, Ugalla, Aruscha, and Teita. Order CHARADRIIFORMES. 160. (EDICNEMUS AFFINIS. (Edicnemus affinis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 990 (1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 17 (1895). A, b. 2 ad. Sibbe, Aug. 3, 1894. Base of bill and feet yellow ; tarsi and toes mottled with brown down the front. A resident species, according to Heuglin, from the Samhar coast to the Somali country. In September and October he met with it in Eastern Kordofan, at the foot of the Arashkol Mountains, and between the months of November and January in the country of the Upper Kir and Gazelle Rivers. Mr. Blanford procured the species in the Anseba Valley in Bogos-land. 161. RHINOPTILUS HARTINGI. Rhinoptilus gracilis (nee Cab.); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 416. Rhinoptilus hartingi, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 46 (1895). a. 2 ad. Ahdeh, July 14, 1894. b. d juv. Sibbe, Sept. 3,1894. Legs greyish white, overlapped edge of each scale grey, merging into a bright white on the overlapping edge. This is the Somali-land form of R. bisignatus. 162. RHINOPTILUS CINCTUS. Cursorius ductus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 972 (1873); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 32 (1894). Rhinoptilus cinctus, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 416 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 46, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1895). A. 2 ad. Selon, Aug. 8, 1894. Iris black; legs dirty white. b. d ad. Lammo, Aug. 12, 1894. Iris brown; base of bill yellow. This species was discovered by Heuglin in the country of the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1895, No. XXXIII. 33 |