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Show 172 MESSRS. SCLATER AND HARTLAUB ON [Jail. 18, half of the whole length, and almost as much in the second ; in tbe two following this black portion is much smaller and of equal length. All this is widely different in A. blythi. Another difference between the two Amydri of Socotra is a structural one : in A. blythi the tail is cuneate, the median rectrices being much elongated ; in A. frater it is a little rounded and much shorter. Only one specimen, an adult male, shot on February 28th. Prof. Balfour did not distinguish this bird from A. blythi. 16. CORVUS UMBRINUS, Hedenb. Corvus umbrinus, Heuglin, Orn. N.A. ii, p. 505. Two examples. " About the centre of the island, common. None about Gollonsir or at the extreme east. Very fearless, and not particular as to the nature of the carrion. The Vultures always yield to them. Nom. vulg. ' Aadip.' " - 7 . B. B. 17. PYRRHULAUDA MELANAUCHEN (Cab.). Coraphites melanauchen, Heugl. Orn. N.A. ii. p. 672. Five males and four females of this Abyssinian species, which extends far into Western Asia, and was obtained by Mr. Blanford in Scinde in January 1876. " Very common on the low-lying plains on both sides of the island. Has a long wailing note, which one hears at daybreak, and the last sound at sunset."-7 B. B. ii. PICARITE. 18. C E N T R O P U S SUPERCILIOSUS, H. et Ehr. Centropus superciliosus, Heugl. Orn. N.A. ii. p. 797. A pair of this species. " By no means common. One bird shot by Cockburn on the limestone plain around Hadibu, close to the stream, sitting on top of a date-palm ; the other I obtained on the bank of a stream between the Hadibu plain and Delishi, just at the back of Ras Haulaf. The bird was in the water when I came up ; I did not see any except the two specimens."-7 R. B. iii. ACCIPITRES. 19. N E O P H R O N P E R C N O P T E R U S (Linn.). "Everywhere on the island."-7. B. B. 20. FALCO PEREGRINUS, Tunst. " By no means common. I only saw three individuals-one on the granite hills near the village of Kismaha, another near the eastern extremity of the island, and a third (the one skinned) from the granite hills above Hadibu."-7. B. B. |