collected on the Red Sea. 339 



species in the ' Iconografia della Fauna Italica ') seems to have 

 known only younger birds after the first moult in autumn. 



8. Falco tanypterus (or peregrinus?). 

 Observed on the island of Bur-da-Rebschi. 



9. MiLVUS PARASITICUS. 



Very common on the Danakil and Somali coast. (A., S.A., 

 &c.) 



10. Caprimulgus europ^us. 



Met with in September on the Danakil, in October on the 

 Somali coast. 



11. Caprimulgus poliocephalus, Riipp. 



In September and October near Tadjura (D.). 



12. Cypselus, sp. 



Observed near Massaua and Eilet (A.) ; small, black, with 

 the rump white. 



[Very probably C. ahyssinicus, Licht. — Ed.] 



13. HiRUNDO rustica. 



Single specimens. Observed in summer near Suez, Cosseir 

 and Tadjura. On the 16th of November a flock near Djebel- 

 tiar. (S.) 



[The specimens sent for examination are certainly H. rus- 

 tica. — Ed.] 



14. COTYLE TORQUATA. 



Tadjura (D.). 



15. CoTYLE PALUDICOLA. 



Tadjura (D.). 



16. CORACIAS GARRULA. 



In October and November very numei'ous in woody marshes 

 on the Somali coast. Here locusts abounded, and many birds 

 were feeding eagerly on them. Shot on the island of Debir in 

 the Red Sea, on July 29th. 



17. Halcyon chlorocephala {Gm.) = Ceryle abyssinica, 

 Lichtenst. Nomencl. Mus. Zool. Berol. p. 67 ; Aug. v. Pelzeln, 

 Sitzungsber. Kais. Acad. Wissensch. 1856, Apr., p. 500. — Iris 

 brown, feet bluish-carneous ; under mandible at base reddish. 



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