392 Analytical Notices of Books. 



Licht.,) " Emb. capite, dorsoque rufescentibus, nigro striolatis; 

 " taenia superciliari, infraorbitali, et mentali albis ; alis caudaque nigris; 

 " pennis rufo limbatis; abdomine helvolo;" also apparently migratory, 

 occurring through the winter in the neighbourhood of Ambukol : and the 

 Emb. Jlavigaster, " Emb. capite nigro, fascia a medio verticis ad nucham 

 " albescente, lineii, superciliari et infraorbitali albis ; tergo castaneo, 

 " tectricibus minoribus et majoribus apice albis; corpore infra citrino; 

 " crisso albo :" a winter inhabitant of Kordofan. The Alauda bifasciata, 

 Licht., has been figured in the Planches Coloriees, and appears to extend 

 its visits as far as to the coast of Barbary and even to the South of France. 

 The Ploceus superciliosus, " Ploc. capitis colore laet^ castaneo, taenia su- 

 " perciliari, mentali, gula, et macula infraorbitali, albis ; stria nigra des- 

 " cendente ad latera colli ; alis umbrinis, margine pennarum flavicanti ; 

 ** corpore inferiore ex fuscescente albo," was met with plentifully in 

 Kordofan : and in the same country was obtained a new species of Psitta- 

 cus, Psitt. Meyeri, "Psitt. capite, collo, et pectore, ex fusco cinerascentibus ; 

 " alis caudaque brevi ex olivaceo fuscescentibus ; plica sulphurea ; toto 

 " gastraeo, crisso, et uropygio viridi splendentibus." The Bucco mar- 

 garitatus " Bucco fronte et vertice nigris, facie, gutture, abdomine, 

 " tergo, colore sulphureo ; fascia pectorali nigra, ; maculis infra eam, 

 ** rostro, crisso, et uropygio coccineis; auchenio, interscapulio, et alis 

 " umbrinis, maculis albis uti margaritis aspersis," is a native of Sen- 

 naar : and over the whole of the north-eastern part of Africa lives the 

 J\/'ectarinia metallica, Licht., " Nect. viridi-senea, uropygio et fascia 

 " pectorali violaceis; pectore, abdomine, et crisso, ranunculaceis; 

 " mas: fcemina cinerea infra flava." 



The Rasorial Birds figured are the Perdix Clappertoni, the Fran- 

 colinus Clappertoni of Messrs. Children and Vigors in the Appendix 

 to Denham and Clapperton's Travels, which is here erroneously ascribed 

 to Mr. Barrow; of this the characters have been already given in 

 the Zoological Journal: and two species of Otis, the Otis JVuba, 

 " Otis fascia superciliari gulaque nigris; collo cinereo-caerulescenti, 

 ** coUari extante rufo ; corpore supra badio, striis nigris irregularibus 

 " multangulis consperso, infra albo; pedibus flavis;" a bird of the 

 deserts of tropical Africa: and the Otis Arabs, Linn., a full grown pair 

 of which were obtained in Kordofan. 



The Grallatores are in number two: tlie Cieonia ephippiorhyncha. 



