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be easily distinguished, their characters are not always very 

 sharply defined nor very constant ; and as the typical red- 

 billed form occurs in Darf ur, their ranges overlap in the White 

 Nile region J and we may presume they would interbreed. 



14. Irrisor minor. 



Promerops minor, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, pp. 25, 28. 



Epimachus minor, Riipp. tom. cit. pi. 8. 



Irrisor minor, Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 244 (Somali) ; Heugl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 218; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 206; 

 Oustalet in RevoiFs Faune et Flore, Comalis, Ois. 1882, p. 7. 



Hab. N.E. Africa, Shoa and Somali. 



In the present specimen the white bar on the wing crosses 

 the inner webs of the second to the seventh primaries, and 

 there is a white spot on the outer webs of the seventh and 

 eighth primaries. 



I would here correct an error with regard to Rhino- 

 pomastes cabanlsi, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 306. The sentence 

 should read thus : — " This species is closely allied to R. minor, 

 but may be readily distinguished by the absence of any white 

 on the primaries." 



15. Upupa epops senegalensis. 



Upupa senegalensis, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. 1837, p. 114; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 199, note ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 105 (Shoa). 



Hab. N.E. and W. Africa : Abyssinia, Shoa, Somali, and 

 Senegambia. I am unable to define exactly what may be 

 the full range of this subspecies. 



The two specimens brought home from Somali agree per- 

 fectly with a specimen from Senegambia in my own collection. 

 They are smaller than the true U. epops, but in other respects 

 similar, with a similar white band across the primaries. 



'' Common everywhere." 



16. Merops nubicus. 



Merops nubicus, Gm. S. N. 1788, p. 464; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. p. 199; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 183; 

 Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. Ill (Lado); Salvad. 



