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Show 496 DR. R.'B. SHARPE O N BIRDS [May 21, p. 436), T. donaldsoni would come near the red-tipped species, T. meriani and T. fischeri. Both of these species, however, have a band of white below the eye, which is absent in T. donaldsom, while the white spot on the sides of the neck, the leaden-blue colour of the back, and the patch of light crimson which forms the crest are characteristics of the new species. Order CORACIIFORMES. Fam. CORACIIDAE. 113. CoRACIAS LORTI. Coracias lorti, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 399 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. (2) vi. p. 224 (1888); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 20 (1892); Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 554 (1894: Webbe and Juba Rivers). a. d ad. Hargeisa, July 21, 1894. b. 2 ad. Stonybrook, Ehrer River, Aug. 19, 1894. c. d ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 19, 1894. Iris brown; legs yellow-ochre. d. 2 ad. Dada, Nov. 21, 1894. 114. CORACIAS N^EVIUS. Coraciaspilosa, Lath.; Heugl. Orn. N.O-Afr. i. p. 172 (1869). Coracias neevius, Daud.; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 399 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 115, vi. p. 223 (1888); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 24 (1892); id. Ibis, 1892, p. 316 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 554 (1894: Aduma); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 124 (1894). a. d ad. Dabulli, Sept. 16, 1894. Iris brown; eyelid yellowish brown ; legs dirty yellow-ochre. Found, according to Heuglin, on the coast-lands of Abyssinia, in Kordofan, and on the White Nile. From January to August Antinori met with it at Let-Marafia in Shoa, and he says that isolated individuals are met with in the low and middle " Kolla," but it is a bird which loves open country. Mr. Jackson procured the species at Machako's, and Dr. Reichenow gives two localities, Assandaui and Igonda. Fam. ALCEDINIDTE. 115. CERYLE RUDIS. Ceryle rudis (Linn.); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 184 (1869); Salvad. Ann. ,Mus. Genov. ,(2) i. p. 112 (1884), vi. p. 222 (1888); Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xxxi. art. no. 10, p. 3 (1886); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 109 (1892); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 130 (1894). «. d ad. Bainhou, Jan. 10, 1894. Iris brown. Heuglin states that the Pied Kingfisher is found from the |
