Collection of Birds from Somali-land. 395 



ceutrCj chin fading into buff, base of the throat tinted with 

 red. ; a narrow pectoral baud, back, and wings black, with 

 large pearl-shaped huffish- white spots ; similar spots on the 

 quills form four partial white bands ; rump yellow ; upper 

 and under tail-coverts crimson; tail black, each feather 

 with five or six large yellowish- white spots, passing into bars 

 toAvards the outer feathers ; remainder of the body huffish 

 yellow, with the axillaries and under wing-coverts brownish 

 white. 



" Shot on the plateau. On another occasion three rose out 

 of a dry well, where they were probably hunting for insects. 

 Iris brown, bill brownish red, feet black." 



12. Halcyon semic/Erulea. 



Alcedo seniic(srulea, Forsk. Descr. An. 1775, p. 2. 



Dacelo semicarulea, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. J 90. 



Halcyon semiceerulea, Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 173, pi. 64; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 160; Hartl. Abh. uat. Ver. 

 Brem. vii. 1881, p. 110 (Lado) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. 1884, p. 113 (Shoa) ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 126. 



Hub. The whole of Africa between about 17° N. lat. and 

 25° S. lat. 



" These birds are never found far from water, and are appa- 

 rently very plentiful at all seasons on the Webbe Shebeyli 

 south of the plateau, and were also met with in the low 

 country near Berbera. They only visit the tableland during 

 the rainy season.^'' 



13. IllRISOR ERYTHRORHYNCHUS. 



Upupa erythrorhynchos, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 1790, p. 280. 



Falcinellus senegalensis, Vieill. N. D. xxviii. p. 168. 



Pi'omerops melanorhynchus (Licht.), Gray & Mitchell, Gen. 

 B. i. pi. 31 (good). 



Irrisor senegalensis, Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 244 (Somali). 



Irrisor erythrorhynchus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 214; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 202 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus, 

 Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 106 (Shoa); Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 127. 



Hah. The whole of Africa south of about 16° N. lat. 



