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Third. There is in the same institution an example of 

 the small race of the Spotted Eagle {Aquila maciilata) 

 from Nubia. 



Fourth. Messrs. Dresser and Blandford mention an 

 Abyssinian Roller (Coracias abyssinica, Bodd) from Egypt, 

 (the "Ibis," 1874, p. 337,) which is a species which is said 

 to have occurred in Britain (Bree "Birds of Europe," I., 



p. 157). 



Fifth. When Macgregor speaks of a large Indian King- 

 fisher arrayed in red and blue, on the Zrier river near Man- 

 sourah, in "The Rob Roy on the Jordan," he probably 

 alludes to Halcyon sjnyrncnsis. 



Sixth. At p. 278 of the " Histoire Naturelle d'Egypte," 

 Audouin and Savigny include the Grasshopper Warbler, 

 and in their thirteenth folio plate they give a figure of it. 

 The species, however, treated of by these authors are some 

 of them Syrian. 



Seventh. The Striped Bunting {Embcriza striolata, 

 Licht.) is stated in Temminck's "Manuel" (3rd part, p. 641) 

 to have been brought from Egypt by Ehrenberg and 

 Riippell, but there is probably a mistake here. I find no 

 mention of Ehrenberg's specimen in the " Symbolje Physics," 

 and Riippell's, if correctly named, were probably brought 

 from southern Nubia. Here let me enter my protest 

 against the loose fashion in which the term Egypt is made 

 use of Egypt proper ends at Assouan (the first cataract), 

 though Captain Shelley, for the convenience of Nile tourists, 

 has very properly extended his work as far south as Wady- 

 Halfeh. 



Eighth. Saxicola erythrcea, Ehr, S. libanotica, Trist, 

 S.finschii, Heugl., are three names referring to one species, 

 which, though not included by Captain Shelley, is stated 

 to have occurred by Mr. Dresser on Von Heuglin's authority, 

 and by Canon Tristram, who mentions having obtained it 

 from Egypt (" Ibis," 1870, p. 495). 



