184 



GENERA AND Sl'l'X'li^ Ol' lillUlS. 



tj. phcenicuroides {BlyUi). (p. 047.) 



(Gates, t. c. ii, p. 340; Shelley, t. c. p. 9(); 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, i. p. 224 * ; 

 Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 357 ; Biaucbi, 

 if.c. pp. 236, 242, 246.) 



From S. Cashmere, 

 Punjab aud Sind, 

 through Afghanistan, 

 Baluchistan and Persia 

 to the S.E. corner of 

 the Caspian Sea. 



7. parvirostris, Hartert, J. f. O. 1890, p. 156; 

 id. J. f. O. 1891, p. 110; id. Viig. 

 Pal. Fauna, i. p. 223 1 ; Bianchi, 

 t. c. pp. 237, 242, 246. 

 [=phcenicurmdes, Shelley, ;■. c. p. 96.] 



Transcaspia. 



8. akeleyi, l:7/iot, Field Columb. Mub., 

 no. 2, p. 39 (1897).] 

 (Bianchi, ;■. c. pp. 235, 242, 246.) 



Orn. 



N. Syniali-land. 



9. assabensis, Salvad., Boll. Mas. Torino, xvii. N. Somali-land 



no. 425 (1902) ; id. Ibis, 1904, p. 473; (Adiel and Danakil 



Bianchi, f. c. pp. 235, 242, 246. Country). 

 (Cf. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 629.) 



10. deserti {Lic/U.). (p. OKi, part.) 



(Shelley, t. c. p. 98, part. ; Reichenow, t. c. 

 p. 355, part. ; Hartert, t. c. p. 222 ; Bianchi, 

 ;;. c. pp. 239, 242, 245.) 



Lybian Dosert. 

 Nile Valley from Cairo 

 to the First Cataracts. 



II. samharensis, Shdley, B. Afr. iii. p. 99, pi. sxi. 



(fig. siuistr.). 

 (Bianchi, t. c. pp. 239, 242, 245.) 

 [Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 302 (1905).] 



Abytsinian highlands. 



* Dr. Hartert also considers that the birds from E. Persia eastwards to Afghanistaa 

 will be found to constitute a distinct race of A. phcenicuroides (torn. cit. p, 224;. 



t Another race is believed by Dr. Hartert to inhabit Tripoli {cf. \^og. Pal. Fauna, 

 i. p. 223 ; A. phcenicuroides, Whitaker (nee Blyth), Ibis, 1902, p. 654). 



