226 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
Fam. UPUPID. 
46. Upupa Epoprs, L. 
Upupa epops, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 27. no. 102; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 145; id. Fauna d. 
Rothen Meer. no. 49; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 195. no. 87. 
? Upupa senegalensis?, Brehm, Habesch, p. 211. no. 37. 
a. Koomaylee. June 5. 
b. 2. Between Ain and Monbar Harat-b’. August 16 (no. 49). 
c. d. Rairo. August 13 (no. 25). 
d. 2. Rairo. August 13. 
Von Heuglin met with our common Hoopoe only during the months of September 
and October on the Danakil coast of the Somali country, and asks “ whether it may be 
a resident bird.” ‘The specimens in Mr. Jesse’s collection answer this question. Having 
been shot in the beginning of June and in the middle of August, there cannot well be 
any doubt that the Hoopoe stays, perhaps in less numbers, all the year round in the 
Bogos country. It may be remarked that Mr. E. C. Taylor found the Hoopoe breeding 
in Egypt as early as the month of March.—0. F. 
[Observed this bird in Koomaylee plain about the 11th and 12th of March. Procured, 
Koomaylee, June 5; Rairo, August 13; between Ain and Monbar Harat-b’, August 16. 
Not seen elsewhere during my trip.—VW. J.] 
47. TRRISOR ERYTHRORYNCHUS (Lath.). 
Promerops erythrorhynchus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 28. no. 103. 
Irrisor erythrorhynchus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 146. 
Irrisor, spec. nov. ?, Heugl. Fauna d. Rothen Meer. no. 51. 
Promerops erythrorhynchus, Brehm, Habesch, p. 211. no. 38; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel. Ostafr. 
p. 202. no. 89. 
3. Kokai. July 12 (no. 1817). 
3. Kokai. July 12 (no. 683). 
Q. Maragaz. July 27. 
Maragaz. July 27. 
e. 6d. Maragaz. July 29. 
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The collection of Mr. Jesse contains red- and black-billed specimens, the latter being 
most probably younger ones. Specimens from the different parts of Africa are not 
separable, but vary very much in coloration, shape of the bill, and size.—0. F. 
{Iris brown; legs and feet coral-red. 
The beaks of some of the specimens procured varied considerably, from black to 
nearly red, probably a difference of age. These birds are excessively noisy and active, 
climbing in all sorts of positions along the trunk and branches of the Adansonia 
hunting for insects; when frightened they fly off in a long string to the next tree. 
They have a peculiarly disagreeable smell, which I cannot well describe; it is not 
