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and a great part of Arabia. In some districts of tlie Nile 

 Delta^ in Siut, Dendera, Dongola, and especially in the low 

 lands of the Rek Negro Country (Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. 

 ii. p. 786). Goro, Shoa, November; Daimbi, February (Ra- 

 gazzi; Salvadorij Ann. Mus. Genov. vi. p. 215). Daimbi, 

 Addagalla (Antinori & Salvadori, op. cit. i. p. 94). Gondo- 

 koro (Emin Pasha ; Hartlaub, Abhandl. Bremen, viii. p. 210). 

 Semmio, Nyam Nyam Country (BohndorfF; Sharpe, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 432, 1882). 



East- African Subregion. — Naiwascha, Masai Land 

 (Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 124). Victoria Nyanza, April 

 (Fischer; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 58). Gonda, West 

 of Lake Tanganyika (Bohm, J. f. O. 1885, pp. 41, 56). 



South-African Subregion. — Very rare in Cape Colony ; 

 specimens from Caffraria (Layard, B. S. Africa, p. 251). 

 Windvogelberg (Bulger; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 22). King- 

 williamstown (Trevelyan ; Sharpe's ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 

 157) . Modder River, November (Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 200) . 

 Very common in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, " in our sum- 

 mer, but not seen in winter'^ (Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 329). 

 Very scarce in the Transvaal (Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 298) . Not 

 uncommon in the vret season in Damaraland, and also about 

 the river Okavango (Andersson, B. Damaraland, p. 225). On- 

 donga (Andersson; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 12). Capangombe, 

 Mossamedes ; Huilla, in Benguela ; Humbe, on Cunene River 

 (Anchieta ; Socage, Orn. Angola, p. 145). 



2. COCCYSTES coromandus. 



This species does not inhabit the whole of the Indian pen- 

 insula, but it extends along the Himalayas as far as Kumaon. 

 It is apparently much more plentiful in Assam, and also 

 occurs in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, nesting in Tip- 

 perah. It recurs in Madras, but whether it extends along 

 the eastern countries of the Indian peninsula I do not know. 

 The Hume collection contains a specimen from the Nilgiris, 

 and a long note by Colonel Legge on its occurrence in Ceylon 

 will be found below. It extends throughout the Burmese 

 countries, and probably over the whole of Southern China, 



