408 APPENDIX. No. IV. 
Certhia chalybea, (Ois. Dor. it. pl. 13 et 14.) 
Merops erythropterus, (Pl. énl. 318.) 
Upupa Epops, Common Hoopoe, not varying in the slightest degree from that 
of Europe. 
Alcedo maxima var.? With the breast ferruginous, the belly varied with black 
and white, the throat white. In other respects it agrees exactly with the 
common varieties from Senegal. 
Alcedo Senegalensis, (Pl. énl. 594.) 
Alcedo , (Pl. énl. 556) probably a variety of Senegalensis, or the other sex. 
Alcedo rudis, (P/. énl. 62.) 
Buceros , (Le Vail. Ois. PAfr. pl. 233.) 
Perdix Cranchii, (new species.) Cinereous-brown beneath, whitish, freckled 
with dark-brown; the spots on the belly elongate and inclining to ferru- 
ginous; throat naked. 
Columba , (Savig. Ois. CEg. pl. 5. f. 9) common. 
Vanellus » (Savig. Ois PEg. pl. 6. f- 3.) 
Scopus umbretta, 'Tufted Umber ; not uncommon. 
Ardea ——, (Savig. Ois. CEg. pl. 8, f 1-) 
Ardea Senegalensis, (Pl. énl. 315.) 
Parra Africana, (Lath. Syn. tab. 87.) 
Very much destroyed, but from the parts remaining, 
Recurvirostra 
not to be distinguished from our European species, R. Avosetta, the common 
Avoset. 
Phalacrocorax » (Savig. Ois. PEg. pl. 8. f. 2-) 
Plotus Congensis, (new species.) Black ; head and neck brownish chestnut ; 
back and wing coverts streaked with white. One only was killed. 
Anas ——, (Savig. Ois. CEg. pl. 10. f- 1-) 
Sterna senex, (new species.) Cinereous-black, top of the head gray, belly with 
a very faint and obsolete teint of chestnut. 
Rhynchops niger, (Pl. énl. 357.) 
ReEPTILEs. 
Trionyx Egyptiacus, (Geoff. St. Hill. Rept. @Eg. pl. 1.) The head only of 
this extraordinary animal was sent home, im spirits. 
Coluber Palmarwm, (new species.) Reddish ; beneath whitish, the scales of the 
