IGC) ]\rr. ^V. K. Ogilvic Grant on Birds 



a. c? . Koiidnro, Abyssinia, 25 Mavcli, 1 899. (No. 448.) 



/>. c?. Mendi, Abyssinia, 1 April, 1899. (No. 4G8.) 



Iris brown; bill and legs l)lacl<. 



[Seen at tbc village of Balti, at tlie Gil)beh (palace) at 

 Addis Abbeba, and in tlie nciglibourbood of one or two 

 other villages, always in the part most inhabited. I did not 

 get a chance of shooting one till we reached Konduro, -where, 

 en March 25th, they -were collecting into parties of from 

 four to eight preparatory to migration. Like tbe rest of the 

 Chats, they were noticeably plumper and in better condition 

 })revious to migration. — L.J 



133. SaXICOLA ISABELLINA. 



Saxicola isabellina Cretzseh. ; Seebolim, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 V. p. 399 (1881); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 485; Lort 

 Bhillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 412 [N. Somaliland] ; Hawker, Ibis, 

 1899, p. 72. 



a. ^ . Lake Harrar IVIeyer, Abyssinia, 30 December, 

 1898. (No. 47.) 



b. J . Ketchen Waba, Abyssinia, IG January, 1899. 

 (No. 201.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



[This Chat inhabits the high plateaux and is specially 

 attracted by open sandy soil, where it is often of a very light 

 colour, at times almost grey. — L.] 



134. Saxicola bott.t:. 



SaxicoJa bottce Bonap. ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. 

 p. 401 (1881). 



Campicola bottcB Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi. p. 1G4 

 (1884), & xxvi. p. 262 (1888). 



cJ. Balti, Abyssinia, 23 January, 1899. (No. 2G8.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



[This Chat soars and sings on the wing like a Sky-Lark. 

 It has a curious habit, when danger approaches, of drawing 

 itself uj) to its full heigbt, its legs being unusually long for 

 those of a Saxicola. It is a bird of the high plateaux, but 

 Avas seen in March about tbe Didesa valley, possibly migrating 

 north. — L.] 



