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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 515 which discharge themselves along the coast of Samhar, in Tigrie and Amhara westwards to Qalabat: it is found between 1000 and 8000 feet, occurring on Lake Tana. It does not seem to be very plentiful in Shoa, but was obtained there by the Italian naturalists. Mr. Jackson met with it in Ukambani; and Dr. Reichenow records it from Ussagara, the Ugalla River, Lake Tanganyika, and Irangi, in German East Africa. 166. TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCUS. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1172 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 222 (1884). Totanus hypoleucus, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 42 (1894). fl. d ad. Dullaat, July 13, 1894. Found throughout North-eastern Africa, according to Heuglin, both on the sea-coast and on the inland waters, and receiving accessions of numbers in spring, autumn, and winter. It goes south to East Kordofan, to the White and Blue Niles, to Abyssinia and the Gulf of Aden. Antinori procured several specimens at Lake Cialalaka in Shoa in November, and Dr. Reichenow records it from the Pangani and Ugalla rivers and Lake Tanganyika. Order PODICIPEDIDIFORMES. 167. TACHYBAPTES CAPENSIS. Podiceps minor, L.; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1363 (1873) PoclicepsJiuviatilis capensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 415. Podiceps capensis, Licht.; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 253 (1884) ; id. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 564 (1894). Tachybaptes capensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 326 (1888). Colymbus jiuviatilis (nee Tunst.), Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost- Afr. p. 17 (1894). fl. Ad. Sheik Mahomed, Nov. 3, 1894. Iris brown ; legs grey, mottled lighter; corners of mouth and base of under mandible greenish white. I described the African bird last year, under the impression that the name P. capensis was a nomen nudum. I find, however, that Count Salvadori had given a diagnosis of the species in 1884, and it stands, therefore, as Tachybaptes capensis (Salvad.). Heuglin does not distinguish between the African and European Little Grebes. He procured the species once in the Abyssinian highlands in summer plumage, and this was doubtless T. capiensis. The bird which he speaks of as occurring in Egypt in winter is T. minor, and this may be the species of Kordofan and the Blue Nile. Antinori met with the Little Grebe in Shoa iu March and April. Dr. Reichenow notices it from Igonda, the Pangani River, Lake Jipi, where it breeds, as well as in Masai-land. 33* |
