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C. fuligula, and not to C. paludibula, Riippell, who under this name confounded 
C. riparia and C. minor. 
ALCEDO SEMITORQUATA, Sws., p. 325. no. 65; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 859. no. 451. 
“One specimen from Adigrat on the highlands of Tigré.” 
Axcepo cristata, L.; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 167. no. 74, et p. 860. Cory- 
thornis cyanostigma, Blanf. p. 324. no. 64. 
“Common near Agula and Dongolo.” 
Mr. Sharpe has lately become convinced that the true A. cristata of Linné is the 
Madagascar species, and that the African form must bear Riippell’s name (cyano- 
stigma) ; but, as I have- noticed already in our work, Linné’s A. cristata (“habitat in 
India orientali”) based upon Seba’s figure and Ispida philippensis cristata, Brisson 
(Orn. iv. p. 483. t. 37. f. 3), must remain for ever obscure, as it is not to be referred 
satisfactorily to any known species. 
Cery.eE RvDIS (L.), p. 325. no. 66; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 175. no. 78. 
“Seen near Magdala and Dongolo, at about 7000 feet above the sea; a rare bird.” 
Meroprs nusicus, Gml., p. 321. no. 57; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 182. no. 80. 
“A large number were collected about one spot close to the hot spring of Atzfut, on 
the shores of Annesley Bay. Mr. Jesse also met with it only once, and in the same 
neighbourhood.” (Blanf.) 
Cisticota ayResi, Hartl.; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 231, note. Hemipteryx 
abyssinica, Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 138. Cisticola abyssinica, Blanf. p. 376. no. 158. 
The comparison of the type specimen of H. abyssinica, Heugl., from Adoa, with the 
type of C. ayresi in the Bremen Museum, proved immediately their identity without 
the slightest doubt. Whether Mr. Blanford’s specimen, shot near Fokada, belongs 
indeed to this species is to be doubted, the length of wing being noticed as 2:11 (pro- 
bably this is a misprint, and should be 1:11; then it would be right). 
Drrmoica GRaciLis (Licht.), p. 373. no. 148. 
“Very common amongst the low bushes of the plain country near Zulla. Mr. Jesse 
found the nest, with two young birds apparently only hatched a few days before, on 
June 12.” (Blanf.) 
Drymoica Mystacea, Riipp., p. 373. no. 149. 
“Shot on the highlands at Adabagi, two marches south of Adigrat.” 
