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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 491 certain seasons to the neighbourhood of the waters. Antinori collected a series of specimens in Shoa, from March to December; and as Dr. Ragazzi procured the species in February, it may be taken as a resident in Shoa throughout the year. Mr. Jackson met with it at Turquel in December, and also in the Teita district; but, curiously enough, the species is not included by Dr. Reichenow in his list of the birds of German East Africa, where Terpsiphone emini is recorded from Bukoba, and the South-African T. perspi-cillata is the predominant species. Fam. HlRUNDINIDiE. 100. HIRUNDO IETHIOPICA. Hirundo albigularis (nee Strickl.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 153 (1869). Hirundo eethiopica, Blanf.; Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xxxi. p. 5 (1886); Sharpe, Cat, B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 146 (1885); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 230 (1888); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch- Ost-Afr. p. 146 (1894). a. d ad. Hargeisa, July 20,1894. b. 2 ad.; c. d juv. Luku, Sept. 17, 1894. Iris dark brown. Occurs, according to Heuglin, all along the Nile below 20°-2l° N. lat., and in Abyssinia up to 10,000 feet. On the Red Sea it is less common, but in Bogos-land it is migratory, arriving with the first summer rain and remaining till September. Antinori records it from the same country as arriving in May and leaving in August. Antinori appears never to have met with the species in Shoa, but Dr. Ragazzi procured a young bird at Gascia Mulu in July. It has not occurred in Mr. Jackson's collections, but is recorded by Dr. Reichenow from Bagamoyo. Order PICIFORMES. Fam. PICIDTE. 101. THRIPIAS SCHOENSIS. Picus schoensis, Riipp.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 809 (1871). Thripias schoensis, Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit, Mus. xviii. p. 308 (1890). a. d ad. Dada, Nov. 21, 1894. Iris dark red. This species was discovered by Riippell in Shoa, and was obtained by Heuglin in the woods on the Bongo and W a u Rivers. Antinori and the Italian naturalists who succeeded that great explorer in Shoa never met with the species. In Teita, Mr. Jackson obtained the southern form, T. namaquus (Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 308), and it is this species which Dr. Reichenow records from Useguha, Nguru, Aruscha, Ugogo, and Kakoma (Vog. Deutsch-Ost-xifr. p. 121). 102. DENDROPICUS HEMPRICHI. Picus hemprichi, H. & E.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 804 (1871) Dendropicus hemprichii, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 393; Hargitt, |
