1918.] the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 693 



he changed the name in the index of the Orn. N.O.-Afr. to 

 C rufula. 



In the meantime Sharpe, in the Catalogue, not realizing 

 that Heuglin had already suggested a substitute name, pro- 

 posed to call Heuglin's bird after him — Argya heuglini ; 

 unfortunately he did not describe Heuglin and RiippelFs 

 bird, but the darker coast bird, so that the name heuglini 

 corresponds to the description, but not to the synonymy 

 or the distribution given in the Catalogue of A. heuglini. 

 In 1895, when describing Dr. Donaldson Smith's collection 

 from western Somaliland, he identified a bird from the 

 Shebeli in south Somaliland with Hiippell's species ; distin- 

 guished it by its larger size and rather different appearance 

 from the birds of the upper White Nile, and also gave a 

 new name A. saturata to his own A. heuglini. 



Finally, Ogilvie-Grant and Reid (Ibis, 1901, p. 661), when 

 describing the Pease collection from southern Abyssinia, after 

 identifying the Pease birds with RiippelFs original A. rubi- 

 ginosa, gave a new name {A. shar'pii) to the Shebeli bird 

 collected by Donaldson Smith on the strength of its larger 

 size and slightly different markings. Unfortunately the 

 Shebeli bird is not in the Museum, and it cannot therefore 

 be compared with the other two races, and until this can be 

 done it must remain a doubtful form. In response to our 

 inquiries Mr. Witmer Stone has been good enough to search 

 for it in the Museum of the Academy of Sciences at 

 Philadelphia, but, although the bulk of Dr. Donaldson 

 Smith's first Somali collection went to Philadelphia, the 

 Shebeli Babbler was not among them. 



Argya acacise. 



Spfienura acacia Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, p. 40 : Nubia. 

 Argya acacia Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 330, 1908, p. 228, 

 1909, p. 395. 



[B. coll.] 1 Port Sudan May, 2 Jebel Bawati May, 



1 Erkowit Mch. R.S. 

 [C. & L. coll.] 3 Port Sudan Dec. Apl., 4 near Sinkat 



Mch. R.S. 



