324 OTIDID^. 



a. 5 ad. st. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.l 



b. S ad- sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.]. 



c 5 ad. sk. Annesley Bay, Dec. 29. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Asoos, Bogos-land, July 2 Tweeddale Coll. 



(^W. Jesse). 



e. S ad. sk. Ain, Bogos-land, July 5 {W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Jesse) . 



f. Ad. sk. Suakim. Surgeon-Capt. R. H. 



Penton [P.]. 

 ff. Ad. sk. Haith-al-him, Aden, March 19 Hume Coll. 



{Col. Yerbiiri/). 

 h. c? ad. ; i, k. $ Lahej, S. Ai-abia, Dec. Col. Yerbury [P.]. 



ad. sk. 

 /. Ad, sk. Mogador. Capt. Taylor [P.]. 



2. Eupodotis kori *. 



Otis kori, Btirch. Trav. S. Afr. i. pp. .393, 402 (1822) ; Eiipp. Mus. 



Senckenb. ii. p. 213, pi. xiii. (1834) : C/uiinn. Trav. >S. Afr. ii. 



App. p. 413 (1868) ; Murie, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 471 ; Finsch ^'Rartl. 



Vol/. Ostafr. p. 611 (1879) ; Bocaqe, Orn. Anr/ola, p. 415 (1881 : 



Humbe) ;' Butler, Feilden, Sj-_ Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 339 (Natal) ; 



Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 387 (Kiwangaiue) ; id. J. f. O. 



1885, p. 116 (Little Aruscha ; Masai-land ; Galla-land) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 632 (1884) ; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1887, 



p. 48 ( Kibaia) ; Bry'den, Kloof ^ Karroo, p. 319, pi. xiv. fig. 2 



(1889). 

 Eupodotis kori. Gray, List GrallcB Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1844) ; Meichenb. 



Sandb., Gall. tab. cclix. figs. 2186-87 (1848) ; Gurney in Anderss. 



B. Bam.-Ld. p. 258 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1876, p. 1.33 (Matabele) ; 



Holub ^ Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siklafr. p. 234 (1882) ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 361 (Mashona-land). 

 Eupodotis cristata (nee Scop.), Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 283 (1867); Cab. in Von der Decken^s Reis. 



iii. p. 45 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 7, no. 9919 (1871) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 346 (Transvaal). 

 Ohoriotis cristata {nee Scop.), Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856). 

 Otis cristata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 213 (1884 : Falls of 



Kataba), vi. p. 309 (1888 : Ghermi, Shoa). 



Adult male. General colour above dark sandy brown, with the 

 usual blackish vermiculations and with a slight greyish shade, 

 some of the feathers of the mantle and upper back rather more 

 blackish ; lower back, rump, aud upper tail-coverts like the 

 back, the latter rather more coarsely freckled ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median coverts for the most part white, 



* The following synonymy has been referred to the present species, but it 

 has also been considered to b.long to E. edwardsi. In reahty Sunnerat's 

 figure is so bad that it would do for either, species. 



Le Paon Sauvage de I'isle de Lu9on, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guiii. p. 86, pi, 49 



(1776). 

 Charadrius cristata, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 93 (1783). 

 Otis leuconiensis, VieUl. Enc. Meth. i. p. 332 (1820). 



