456 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW VARIETY OF GALAGO. [Nov. 8, 
arctic region east and west, we find, out of Mr. Swinhoe’s list of 253 
Chinese land-birds, 36 species common to Palestine. Out of 210 
Chinese Waders and Waterfowl, 57 are common to Palestine. 
Out of 230 Palestine land-birds, 79 are common to the British 
Isles, excluding from the British list all mere accidental stragglers ; 
and out of 92 Palestine Grallatores and Natatores, 55 can justly be 
reckoned as ordinary British birds. 
Of the whole 322 species noted in Palestine, 260 are included in 
the European lists; 31 are common to Eastern Africa, but are non- 
European species, or merely the most accidental stragglers, and are 
chiefly desert species of Nubia and the Sahara; 7 are of Eastern 
Asia; 4 of Northern Asia, Serinus pusillus, Carpodacus erythrinus, 
Charadrius asiaticus, and Charadrius mongolicus; 4 of the Gulls 
and Terns are characteristic of the Red Sea; and 27 species are, so 
far as our present knowledge extends, peculiar to Palestine and dis- 
tricts immediately adjacent, of which 9 species are now described for 
the first time, while several others, as Cypselus galileensis, Sitta 
kruepert, Bessonornis albigularis, Petronia brachydactyla, Nectarinia 
osea, as well as most of Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s new species, 
have not before been brought to England. Every species described 
by Hemprich and Ehrenberg has been obtained and identified during 
this expedition, excepting one doubtful species. 
4. Notice or A New VARIETY OF GALAGO FROM QUILLIMANE 
(OTOGALE CRASSICAUDATA, VAR. KIRKI). By Dr. J. E. 
Gray, F.R.S., etc. 
Dr. Kirk has kindly sent to the British Museum the skin and skull 
of a Galago, which he collected at Quillimane; but he says that he 
also observed it in other parts of Africa, as at Mozambique and on 
the Delta, among the palm-trees. 
It is very different in colour from the specimen of Otogale crassi- 
caudata in the British Museum; but we (for in the comparison I was 
assisted by Professor Allman and Dr. Kirk) cannot discover any per- 
ceptible difference between the skulls of the two specimens, more 
than what must arise from one being rather younger than the other. 
I have therefore determined to describe it as a variety, and apply 
to it the name of Dr. Kirk as a distinguishing mark. I think it very 
probable that these animals change considerably the colour of the 
fur, according to the season. 
OTOGALE CRASSICAUDATA, VAR. KIRKII. 
The fur pale ashy grey; the hairs of the general fur are black, 
with grey tips, and the body is scattered with long, projecting, 
rigid, black hairs. The cheeks and underside of the body and 
inside of the limbs whiter; the face, crown of the head, nape, middle 
of the back, shoulders, and outside of the fore limbs washed with yel- 
lowish brown, darkest on the crown, nape, and between the shoul- 
