XII. A LIST OF THE BIRDS COLLECTED NEAR MOM- 

 BASA, EAST AFRICA, BY WILLIAM DOHERTY. 



Bv W. J. Holland, LL.D. 



The following list is based upon a small collection of birds collected 

 by the late U'illiam Doherty, in September and October, 1900, on 

 the hills ten miles west of Mombasa, in British East Africa. Mr. 

 Doherty devoted much of his time while located there to collecting 

 lepidoptera and birds. The lepidoptera are contained in the collec- 

 tion of Dr. \\'. J. Holland. The birds were purchased by the Car- 

 negie Museum. In a few cases, where there was doubt as to the 

 identification of species, they were referred to Dr. Anton Reichenow 

 of l>erlin, who is universally recognized as being to-day one of the 

 most distinguished authorities upon the avifauna of Africa. With the 

 most obliging courtesy Dr. Reichenow determined the specimens 

 which were sent to him, and his kindness is gratefully acknowledged. 

 In a number of instances the species listed in this paper do not appear 

 to have been heretofore recorded as occurring in the immediate 

 vicinity of Mombasa.' 



For the sake of convenience the order of arrangement in the list 

 conforms to the order of Reichenow's great work, "Die Yogel 

 Afrikas," so far as it has appeared, and in the latter part of the list I 

 have followed the order pursued by the same author in his work 

 entitled " Die Yogel Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas." 



Family CHARADRIID^. 



C;enus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus. 



1. Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus. 



One female, 82 "j 2.'^ 



Genus CEDICNEMUS Temminck. 



2. (Edicnemus capensis Lichtenstein. 



One female, 7745. 



' In the preparation of this list I have received valuable assistance from Mr. W. 

 E. C. Todd, Custodian of the ornithological collections in the Carnegie Museum. 



2 The numbers given are the catalogue numbers in the Section of Ornithology in 

 the Carnegie Museum. 



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