408 APPENDIX. No. IV. 



Certhia chalyhca, (Ois. Dor. ii. pi. 13 et 14.) 



Merops erythropterus, (PI- enl.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. Tn other respects it agrees exactly with tl»e 



common varieties from Senegal. 

 Alcedo Senegalensis, (PI, enl. .594.) 



' .Alcedo , {PI. enl. 556) probably a variety oi Senegalensis, or the other sex. 



Alcedo rudis, (PI. enl. 62.) 



Buceros , (Le Vail. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 233.) 



Perdix Cranchii, (new species.) Cinereous-brown beneath, whitish, freckled 



with dark-brown ; the spots on the belly elongate and indining to ferru- 

 ginous ; throat naked. 



Columha , (Savig. Ois. dEg.pl. 5.f. 9) common. 



Vanellus , (Savig. Ois d'Eg. pi. &-f- 3.) 



Scopus umbrctta. Tufted Umber ; not uncommon. 



Ardea , (Savig. Ois. d'Eg. pi. S,J'. 1.) 



Ardea Senegalensis, (PI. enl. 315.) 



Parra Africana, (Lath. Syn. tab. 87.) 



Recurvirostra Very much destroyed, but from the parts remaining, 



not to be distinguished from our European species, R. Avosetta, the common 



Avoset. 



Phalacrocorax , (Savig. Ois. d'Eg. pi. 8. J". 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. d'Eg. pi. lO.yi 1.) 



Sterna senex, (new species.) Cinereous-black, top of the head gray, belly with 



a very faint and obsolete teint of chestnut. 

 Rhynchops ntger, (PI. enl. 357.) 



Reptiles. 



Trionyx Egyptiacus, (Geoff. St. Hill. Rept. d'Eg. pi. I .) The head only of 



this extraordinary animal was sent home, in spirits. 

 Coluber Palmarum, (new species.) Reddish ; beneath whitish, the scales of the 



