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



"Male: bill black, iris orano;e-yello\v, orbital patch pale 

 yellow, feet and eyelid yellow." 



Both birds are quite adult, but in worn plumage. 



Centropus superciliosus. 



Centropus superciliosus Hempricli & Ehrenberg, Symb. 

 Phys. 1828, ff. r. : Arabia. 



Yerbury, 86, p. 15, 96, p. 20; Barnes, 93, p. 73; 

 O.-Grant, 1900, p. 253; Lorenz & Hellmayr, 1901, p. 242, 

 1907, p. 115. 



a,b. S '^- Hajeilali, 2080 ft. 12 & 16. iv, 13. 



" Female : iris crimson, bill black, feet greyish black." 



" A markedly unfamiliar note is that of the Bush- 

 Cuckoo, a tawny long-tailed bird that flits like a miniature 

 pheasant through the bushes. Its song is like the murmur 

 of a 1)rook, and is only heard in the cool of the morning and 

 when the afternoon sun has spent itself." 



Micropus affmis. 



Micropus affiiiis, Gray & Hardwicke, III. Ind. Zool. i. 1832, 

 pi. 35. fig. 2 : India. 



Yerbury, 86, p. 15, 96, p. 18 ; O.-Grant, 1900, p. 258. 



a. c?. Hajeilah, 2080 ft. 24.iii.13. 



b. ?. Sanaa, 7600 ft. 10.ix.l3, 



^' Iris dnll brown, bill black, feet vandyke-brown, tarsi 

 paler; after heavy rain." 



Merops apiaster. 



Merops apiaster Linuccus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 117: S. 

 Europe. 



a-c. 2 c?,? imm. Sanaa, 7600 ft. 4-15. ix. 13. 



The Bee-cater had not previously been recorded from 

 southern Arabia, except by Eorskal in the 18th century, but 

 there are examples in the British Museum, obtained by Bury 

 some years ago in the Amiri district, on September 9. A 

 note on the ticket of one of these examples is as follows : — 

 " Taken from a flight moving over from the north, which 

 stooped to settle for the night among the trees of El 

 Kubar." 



