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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 503 land, the lowlands of Abyssinia, extending up to 7000 feet, and Kordofan, but does not go far south along the White Nile. It has not been recorded from Shoa, but Dr. Reichenow gives the Pangani River as a single locality for the species in East Africa. Fam. CAPRIMULGIDJE. 133. CAPRIMULGUS INORNATUS. Caprimulgus inornatus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 129 (1869); Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 556(1892) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 322; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 139 (1894). A. d ad. Zeila, June 30, 1894. Heuglin found this Goatsucker not uncommon during the rainy season in Bogos-land, where also Messrs. Blanford and Jesse collected it. Heuglin also procured a specimen near Tedjura on the Adail coast. Mr. Jackson met with the species at Makarunga, and Dr. Reichenow records it from Kigonge in Usaramo. 134. CAPRIMULGUS DONALDSONI. Caprimulgus donaldsoni, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. Club, iv. p. xxix (1895). a. Ad. Hargeisa, July 18, 1894. This fine species of Goatsucker with its long rictal bristles, its red collar round the hind-neck, mottled with golden-buff spots, with a similar collar across the fore-neck, is very distinct from all other African Goatsuckers, and Mr. Hartert pronounces it unquestionably a new species. Fam. CYPSELID^E. 135. TACHORNIS PARVA. Cypselus parvus, Licht.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 144(1869). Tachornis parva (Licht.); Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 463. • A. 2 ad. Shebeli, Aug. 28, 1894. Heuglin says that this Swift is resident in Southern Egypt, in Nubia, and along the White and Blue Niles, becoming rarer in the Gazelle River district. He believes that he saw it also on the Arabian coast and the Dahlak Islands, but not in the Abyssiniau Mountains. Order STRIGES. Fam. BUBONIDCE. 136. B U B O LACTEUS. Bubo lacteus (T.); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 112 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 33 (1875); Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 392 (Ogadayn); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 206 (1888); Oust. t.'c. p. 31 (1886); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 534; Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 550 (1894: Warandab); Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 96 (1894). |