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Show 1881.] FROM SOCOTRA AND S. ARABIA. 957 19. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (L.). Gallinula chloropus, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1224; Finsch & Hartl. Ostafr. p. 787. Five adult specimens. Not obtained by Prof. Balfour. g. STEGANOPODES. 20. PHALACROCORAX LUCIDUS, Licht. Phalacrocorax lucidus, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1490; Finsch & Hartl. Ostafr. p. 846. Halieus lucidus, Licht. Doubl. p. 86; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 1490 ; Finsch & Hartl. Ostafr. p. 846. An adult female from Tamarida. " Iris yellowish white." Not in the Balfour collection. II. SOUTHERN ARABIA. 1. DRYMOICA TENELLA (?). Drymceca tenella, Cab. in v. d. Deck. Reise in Ostafr. iii. p. 29, t. ii. fig. 1; Reich. Cab. Journ. 1877, p. 30. One mile from Bolhaf. " Iris red, with a yellow ring." In colour very much like C. tenella, from Lado, but with the beak smaller and slenderer. Long. culm. 8 mm., al. 46, caud. 60, tars. 18. 2. NECTARINIA METALLICA, Licht. Nectarinia metallica, Licht. Doubl. p. 15 ; Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Physic. Av. t. 1 ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 224. Five adult specimens. Shagra and Bolhaf. There are Arabian specimens of this bird in the Berlin Museum. 3. MEROPS CYANOPHRYS, Cab. Merops cyanophrys, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 203, pi. vi.; Cab. Mus. Hein. iii. p. 137. Male and female from Hami. " Iris brick-red." April. This fine and little-known species was discovered by Hemprich and Ehrenberg near Qonfudah. It seems strictly confined to Arabia. I add a short description of the birds before me, as that in Heug-lin's work has evidently been taken from a much livelier-coloured specimen:- Supra obsolete et pallide aruginoso-virens, suBcairulescenti suBtus magis in carulescentem vergens; gula, fronte et super-ciliis late cyaneis; torque latiusculo gutturali striolaque oculum ducta nigris; remigiBusprim, inpogonio externo oBsolete virentiBus, in pogonio interno pallide fulvescentiBus ; tertiariis |