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Show 566 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY O N [May 3, 22. CORACIAS GARRULA. Coracias garrula, Linn., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 152; Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 189; id. P.Z.S. 1873, p. 712; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 234; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, pp. 291, 303; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 343 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 124. Usambara mountains. This species ranges throughout the entire African region, but migrates northward of the tropics about May. 23. CORACIAS CAUDATA. Coracias caudata, Linn., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 154; Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 194; id. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 712; Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, p. 178; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 354 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 234 ; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 254; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, pp. 283, 291 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 124. Pangani; Usambara mountains ; Dar-es-Salaam. This is a common bird, and very generally distributed throughout East Africa, extending as far north as Bogue, near the southern extremity of the Victoria Nyanza, where it has been collected by Captain Speke. It also ranges over the whole of South Africa and Angola. 24. CORACIAS N^VIA. Coracias ncevia, Daud., Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 190. Dar-es-Salaam. This species ranges throughout Africa south of about 17° N. lat., but is here recorded for the first time from East Africa. 25. HAPALODERMA CONSTANTIA. Trogon narina (part.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 155; Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, p. 253 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, pp. 288, 289 : Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 342 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 124. Hapaloderma constantia, Sharpe & Ussher, Ibis, 1872, p. 281. Melinda; Usambara mountains. These two specimens agree perfectly with one of the types of H. constantia in my own collection. This race, as yet only recorded from Fantee and the Zanzibar coast, is, I suspect, the one which inhabits North-eastern Africa, H. narina (Vieill.) being probably confined to South Africa. Jointly these races inhabit the whole of Africa south of the equator, and extend northward to Ailet on the Red Sea and to Fantee on the west coast. 26. HALCYON SENEGALOIDES. Halcyon senegaloides, Smith, Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 187, pi. 68; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 235. Halcyon irroratus, Reichenb., Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 159; Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, p. 258; Fischer, torn. |
