344 Dr. lleuglin's List of Birds 



certainly occurring in the saline plains that separate the latter 

 from Abyssinia. Very common in the Somali country. 



" I was told by a rather trustworthy man, a hunter, that south 

 of Fazogloa, near Djebel Dul, there existed a little didactyle Os- 

 trich, not higher than Otis arabs, but in figure and colour much 

 like S. camelus." [Autruchon, Temm. ? — Ed.] 



70. Otis heuglinii, Hartl., n. sp. (Plate XI.) 



g , adult. : Pileo et facie nigris, vitta angusta verticali ab an- 

 gulo frontali ad nucham usque ducta alba ; nigredine gulari in 

 apicem excurrente ; genis pure albis ; collo medio cinereo, pectus 

 versus magis magisque rufescente, maculisque minutis obscuri- 

 oribus transversim notato ; colli infimi ptilosi antice elongata 

 fasciaque fusca terminata ; corpore supra dilute ochraceo, nigri- 

 cante irregulariter fasciolato et variegato ; tectricibus alarum 

 extimis nigris, ad basin et ad apicem late albis ; dorso medio, 

 uropygio, tectricibus caudse superioribus et cauda supra magis 

 cinerascentibus, gracillime undulato-fasciolatis ; fascia ante-api- 

 cali caudse obscura, ipso apice albo, fascia altera vix conspicua ; 

 remigibus primariis tribus externis nigro-fuscis, reliquis irregu- 

 lariter et late albo fasciatis ipsisque apicibus albis ; secundariis 

 nigro-fuscis, macula apicali cuneata lata obtusa alba notatis, ad 

 basin pallidis ; corpore subtus, subalaribus et axillis pure albis ; 

 rostro virescenti-nigro, apice pallidiore ; pedibus sordidc et 

 pallide flavidis ; iride fusca. Long. tot. 2' 9" 6'"; tars. 5" 6"; 

 rostr. ab ang. oris 3" 5", a fr. 2" 11"; al. 1' 6". 



In small flocks of three or four birds in the dense underwood 

 near the wells of Thushha on the route between Zeita and 

 Harar. Not very shy. 



[This beautiful Bustard seems to be quite new. It is totally 

 different from the Sypheotides humilis of Blyth. Ed.] 



71. Otis arabs. 



In the Samher-country (coast of Abyssinia) and on the plains 

 of Habab. 



72. CEdicnemus affinis. 



Coast of Abyssinia and Habab. Danakil- country south to 

 Tadjura. 



