394 Mr. E. Lort Phillips on Birds 



little steamer ' Sheikh Berkhud/ and received on landing a 

 most welcome invitation to Government House from General 

 and Mrs. Cunningham. 



In arranging the following field-notes^ which give the 

 results of our observations during the expedition, I am grate- 

 fully indebted to my friend Dr. Bowdler Sharpe for his 

 kind assistance, and in compiling them I have followed the 

 order of classification adopted by him in his paper on the 

 Birds of Western Somalilaud (P. Z. S. 1895, pp. 457-520). 



1. Rhinocorax affinis (Riipp.) ; Elliot, Field Columb. 

 Mus., Orn. i. no. 2, p. 30. 



No. 164. c? . Wagga Mountain, Feb. 22, 1897. Iris 

 black. 



This Short-tailed Raven is extremely common in Somali- 

 land, from the sea-coast at Berbera to the top of the Goolis. 

 It is a persistent and most fearless camp-follower, and is 

 ever on the look-out for scraps from the kitchen. It has a 

 curious habit of walking about with its beak wide open, as 

 if greatly affected by the heat. 



2. CoRONE EDiTHiE Lort Phillips, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 iv. p. 36 (1895). 



No. 22. ? ad. Berbera, Jan. 18, 1897. Iris brown. 



We met with this Crow at Berbera, where it was to be 

 seen in company with the Short-tailed Raven {Rhinocorax 

 affinis). Though not so plentiful as the latter species, it 

 was fairly common on the Goolis range during our visit. 



3. Lamprocolius chalybeus (Ehr.) ; Lort Pldllips, Ibis, 

 1896, p. 84. 



No. 86. ? ad. Sheikh, Jan. 30, 1897. Iris yellow. 



No. 138. ? ad. Sogsoda, Feb. 14, „ „ „ 



No. 139. c? ad. 



No. 225. ? juv. Wagga, Mar. 6, „ „ „ 



JNO. <^oi). „ „ ,, ,, „ 



No. 225 is in full moult on the wings. 



This Glossy Starling seems to prefer the cooler heights of 

 the Goolis to the Gooban or hot coast-land, where I do not 

 remember to have seen it. In the former locality, however. 



