340 i)v. Heugliu's List of Birds 



On trees and bushes in marshy places along the coasts of 

 Abyssinia, Danakil, and Somali. 



[I cannot discover any material difference between the birds of 

 Eastern Africa and those of the Indian Archipelago. — En.] 



18. Halcyon semic^rulea (Forsk.). 



Seems to be only a bird of passage. During the whole of Sep- 

 tember and up to the middle of October not one single specimen 

 was seen on the Danakil coast. But from this time many of 

 them occui'red about Tadjura, Ambabo, &c. They lived in pairs 

 on Mimosa and Zizyphus trees. Near Berbera (S.) more rarely 

 on saline plants. 



19. Halcyon CHELicuTi. (A., D.) 

 On trees. 



20. Merops superctliosus. 



In October, in large flocks, on the Somali coast. 



21. Merops cuvieri. (A., D.) 



22. Upupa epops. (D.) 



23. Nectarinia habessynica. (A., D.) 



24. Nectarinia, av. jun. (spec. ?). 

 Tadjura. 



25. Oligura microura. (D., A.) 



26. Drymoica rufifrons (Riipp.). (D., S.) 



27. Drymoica gracilis (Riipp.). 

 Island of Agig. 



28. Sylvia delicatula (Hart.), n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 

 Supra pallide isabellino-brunnescens, remigibus fuscis, dorsi 



colore limbatis ; subtus multo pallidior, albida ; cauda lon- 

 giuscula, rectrice extima tota alba, secundre apice et pogonio 

 externo albidis interno nigricanti-fusco, tertia fusco-nigri- 

 cante, macula parva apicali alba, margine externo rufes- 

 cente; mediis pallide rufis, medio longitudinaliter fusces- 

 centibus ; subcaudalibus et subalaribus albidis ; rostro et 

 pedibus gracillimis, pallide flavis, illius culmine et apice 

 nigricantibus; iride flavissima: long. tot. 4" 5'", alt. 2" 2"', 

 rostr. .\fr. 4'", caud. 2" 1'", tars. 9'''. (Mus. Brem.) 



