lU Mr. W. L. Sclater on [Ibis, 



whicli it diflTers in the absence, as a rule, of the chestnut 

 behind the eye and across the nape ; the general colour is 

 also paler, and the crown has a wash of pale brown over the 

 ashy grey. It is a common bird in the Aden Protectorate. 



Poliospiza menachensis. 



Poliospiza meaachetisis O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxxi. 1913, 

 p. 90 : Yemen. 



a, 6, c??. Menakha, 7000 ft. 31 & 20. i. 13. [Types 

 of the species.] 



c-h. 5 (J, 1 2. Menakha, 6000-7500 ft. 21.\ii. 12 to 

 31.i. 13. 



i. ? . Wasil, 4000 ft. 27, ii. 13, 



h,l. J ? . Sanaa, 7600 ft. 8 & 10. ix. 13. 



This Seed-eater, judging from the number procured, must 

 be fairly abundant in the highlands of Yemen. Its nearest 

 ally, as Mr. O.-Grant has pointed out, is P. reichardi of 

 eastern and north-eastern Africa, from which, however, it 

 can be at once distinguished ])y its smaller bill and by the 

 absence of the white eyebrow. 



Serinus uropygialis. 



Carpodacus uropygialis Heuglin, Orn. N.-O. Afr. i. 1871, 

 p. 642 : Qonf uda or Kunfuda, Arabia. 



Seritms rothschildi O.-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. 1902, 

 p. 21 : Haushabi dist., S. Arabia. 



Lorenz h Hellmayr, 1901, p. 234, 1907, p. 108. 



a-e. 2 S> 3 ?. Menakha, 7000 ft. 28. xii. 12 to 

 15.i.l3. 



f,g-S^- Wasil, 4000 ft. 26-27. ii. 13. 



Reichenow and Lorenz & Hellmayr identify this species 

 with Carpodacus urojnjgialis, obtained by Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg from Kunfuda, a port on the Red Sea between 

 Jiddali and Hodeida, and there seems to be little doubt that 

 their decision is correct. 



The types of Mr. O.-Grant's S. rothschildi were obtained 

 by jNIr. Bury on the borders of the Aden Protectorate and 

 Yemen. 



