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Show 1881.] FROM SOCOTRA AND S. ARABIA. 959 not very good, I add a few remarks upon the birds (five specimens) before me :- Ad. late citrino-fiava, rectricibus, remigibus et scapularibus fusco-nigricantiBus, pallide ochroleuco marginatis ; tectricibus alarum minoribus et suBalariBus late fiavis; suBcaudaliBus pallide flavidis; rostro nigricante. Jun. minus late tincta, supra sordide adumBrata, capite et pectore purius fiavis ; man-diBula pallida, apice nigricante. Juv. fiavedine vix ulla ; toto sordide et oBsolete ex fiavido fulvescente ; subtus pal-lidior ; rostro pallescente. The colour of the young bird is very curious and indistinct. the adult the dark blackish-brown tertials and scapulars, broadly margined with pale isabelline, form a most prominent feature. A second species of the genus Chrysospiza is Fringilla lutea of Licht. (Temm. PI. Col. 365), from Sennaar (cf. Heugl. loc. cit. p. 637). 9. HYPHANTORNIS GALBULA, Riipp. Hyphantornis galbula, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 557, t. xviii. fig. d (fig. med.) ; Riipp. N. Wirb. Abyss, p. 92, t. 32. Two adult males from Hami. "Iris orange-red." From Qonfudah, in the Berlin Museum, by Hempr. & Ehrenb. 10. GALERIDA CRISTATA (L.). Galerida cristata, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 680; Hartl. & Finsch, Ostafr. p. 460. One specimen. Shugra. Well known from the Gulf of Aden. 11. ARDEA BREVIPES, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Ardea Brevipes, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. Av. fol. M ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 1082. An adult male from Bolhaf. It remains doubtful to me whether this bird is really to be considered distinct from A. atricapilla, or merely a local variety of this species, confined, as Heuglin maintains, to the coasts of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. 12. LARUS LEUCOPHTHALMOS, Licht. Larus leucophthalmos, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1396 ; Finsch & Hartl Ostafr. p. 821. Two specimens, an adult and a younger male, from Hami. " Iris grey; beak of a uniform greyish black." |