314 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
is evidently a younger bird of B. auguralis. Not having seen the type specimen, and 
still feeling some doubts, I wrote several times to my friend Dr. Brehm in order to 
satisfy myself whether the description of his B. anceps was indeed based upon the 
specimen now in the Berlin Museum. I much regret to say that I have not received 
an answer from my friend, who, occupied with extensive popular publications, seems to 
have partially lost his interest for pursuits of a purely scientific kind. I therefore am 
unable to decide whether the species should be called B. anceps, or, as I suspect, B. 
aquguralis. In any case this species, although allied to B. augur, is well distin- 
guished, not only by its inferior size, but also by the very different coloration. The 
crop and breast are dark red-brown, the remaining underparts white with conspicuous 
dark cordiform spots; under tail-coverts and thighs uniformly white; the greater 
portion of the inner web of the secondaries is white, with five or six narrow, incom- 
plete, dark cross bands, whereas in &. augur there are from nine to eleven complete 
dark cross bands. 
Long. al. Caud. Rostr. Tars. Dig. med. Ung. 
16"-17" vAL gili_gl gl Qu -13"" 3! o"_3!" 6! 172g" gl_jo.l! Ate augur (after 
five type spec. in the Senkb. Mus.) 
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133-144 6 4-7 2 104 -11 15 -17 7-8 ...B.auguralis (after 
two type spec. in Turin.) 
P. 203. no. 8. MILVUS MIGRANS. 
Mr. Blanford (/. ¢. p. 300) also records the occurrence of this species in Abyssinia, 
where it is “‘ extremely common everywhere, both on the highlands and lowlands.” Von 
Heuglin (Orn. N.-O. Afr. p. 98) is therefore evidently wrong in supposing it to be only 
a winter visitor in Egypt. 
P. 216. no. 27. CyPsELUS AFFINIS. 
Mr. Blanford, who met with this species in May breeding under rocks in the Sooroo 
Pass, is wrong in saying “ Brehm states that this bird breeds on palms;” for Brehm 
does not say so positively, but only that it is probable (Habesch, p. 273). 
P. 230. no. 55. NecrARINIA JARDINEI. 
Mr. Blanford also obtained a single specimen of this rare Sun-bird from Captain 
Sturt; it was shot at an elevation of between 5000 and 6000 feet below Senafé. Von 
Heuglin never met with this species, and enumerates it in his work (Orn. N.-O. Afr. 
p- 227) only as having been informed of its occurrence privately by myself. 
P. 231. no. 59. CAMAROPTERA BREVICAUDATA. 
Mr. Blanford (/. ¢. p. 876) confirms the fact that the female is considerably smaller, as 
already noticed by Prof. Sundevall. As it is discovered that the ‘“‘ Olivert” of Levail- 
lant (t. 125), Sylvia brachyura, Vieill., is not an Eremomela, but a true Camaroptera, 
