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Show 500 DR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS [May 21, eastern Africa. He did not find it in Samhar, but in the neighbouring mountains of Bogos and Habab, as well as in Takah, throughout the whole of Abyssinia south to Shoa, in Fazogl, Senar, Kordofan, and in the district of the White Nile westwards to the Kosanga River. Antinori collected a number of specimens in Shoa, and Mr. Jackson met with the species on the Turquel River ; but in East Africa, according to Dr. Reichenow, it is replaced by B. cafer. Fam. UPUPID.E. 124. UPUPA SOMALENSIS. Upupa epops senegalensis (nee Sw.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 397. Upupa somalensis, Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 13, pi. i. (1892). a. 2 ad. Hargeisa, July 21, 1894. 125. IRRISOR ERYTHRORHYNCHUS. Irrisor erythrorhynchus (Lath.); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 214 (1869); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 107 (1884), vi. p. 220 (1888); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 395 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 19 (1892); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 138 (1894). «. d ad. Shebeli, Aug. 26, 1894. Iris brown ; legs coral-red. c. Ad. Sheik Mahomed, Oct. 28, 1894. b. 2 ad. Shebeli, Sept, 3, 1894. Iris brown: legs bright coral-red ; base of lower mandible red. An inhabitant of the wooded country of N.E. Africa, and met with by Heuglin in Takah, Abyssinia, Senar, Kordofan, and in the White Nile districts, westwards to the Kosanga, as well as on the Abyssinian coast-land, ascending the mountains to 1000 feet. Antinori says that the species was common but local at Daimbi in Shoa. It has not occurred to Mr. Jackson in the interior, but Dr. Reichenow gives a number of localities for it in German East Africa-Dar-es-Salaam, Pangani River, Ugogo, Mpwapwa, &c. 126. RHINOPOMASTUS MINOR. Irrisor minor (Riipp.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 218 (1869); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 397. Rhinopomastus minor, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 263 (1884), vi. p. 220 (1888); Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 26 (1892); Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 553 (1894: River Adadle and Mt. Goolis). A. d ad. The Haud, Julv 22, 1894. b. d ad. Milmil, July 30, 1894. Bill orange. There seems to be some mistake in the ' Key' to the genus Rhinopomastus given in the ' Catalogue' (p. 24), as R. minor is placed with R. cyanomelas in the section with sub-terminal white spots on the tail. As a matter of fact R. minor has the tail |
