174 ON BIRDS FROM SOCOTRA. [Jail. 18, 



20. .Egialitis cuRONiCA (Beseke). 

 "Common ou the streams." — i. B. B. 



30. tEgiALITIS CANTIANA (Lath.) . 



" Common on the streams." — /. B. B. 



31. TOTANXJS CANESCENS (Gm.). 



••Abundant on the Deheni river." — /. B. B. 



32. Tringoides hypoleucus (Linn.). 



•' Met with on the upper part of tlie stream in GoUonsir valley." 

 — /. B. B. 



33. Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 



One example of this species, preserved in spirit, is in the collection. 

 '• Often seen in the marshes at the mouths of the rivers." — J. B. B, 



34. Dromas ardeola, Payk. 



"This bird was met with on the shore at the mouth of the river 

 at Gollonsir, where it was frequent." — /. B. B. 



iv. GAVI^. 



35. Larus affinis, Reinhardt. 



Larus affinis, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 171. 



" Common on the shore in the vicinity of ' Cadhoop ' village. I 

 did not see them cither near Gollonsir village or near Hadibu." — 

 /. B. B. 



Mr. Howard Saunders has kindly taken considerable trouble with 

 the single specimen of this Gull obtained. It is in immature plumage, 

 '•an unusually large specimen, but not of L. murims, as a casual 

 observer might suppose." 



36. Sterna bergii (Licht.). 



Sterna bergii, Heuglin, Orn. N.A. ii. p. 1436. 

 '• On shores at Cadhoop and between that village and Hadibu. 

 Common."—/. B. B. 



Conclusions as to the Socotran Avifauna. 



The examination of the collection shows at once that, so far as one 

 can judge of it by its birds, Socotra, as might have been anticipated, 

 belongs to the same fauna as North-eastern Africa. The island has, 

 however, been sufficiently long separated from Cape Gardafui to 

 allow of a certain number of species becoming differentiated, unless 

 indeed, as is not improbable, these shall be hereafter found to exist 

 also in Somaliland, the ornithology of which is still very imperfectly 

 known to us. 



Putting aside all the birds in the previous list, except the Passeres, 



