1881.] from socotra and s. arabia. 957 



19. Gallinula chloropus (L.). 



Gallinula chloropus, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1224; Fiusch & Hartl. 

 Ostafr. p. 787. 



Five adult specimens. 



Not obtained by Prof. Balfour. 



g. Steganopodes. 



20. Phalacrocorax lucidus, Licht. 



Phalacrocorax lucidus, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1490 ; Finsch & Hartl. 

 Ostafr. p. 84G. 



Halieus lucidus, Licht. Doubl. p. 86; Heugl. Oru. N.O.-Afr. 

 p. 1490 ; Finsch & Hartl. Ostafr. p. 846, 



An adult female from Tamarida. 



" Iris yellowish white." 



Not in the Balfour collection. 



II. SOUTHERN ARABIA. 



1. DrYMCECA TENELLA (?). 



Bnjmoeca tenella, Cab. in v. d. Deck. Reise in Ostafr. iii. p. 29, 



t. ii. fig. 1 ; Reich. Cab. Journ. 1877, p. 30. 



One mile from Bolhaf. " Iris red, with a yellow ring." 



In colour very much like C. tenellu, from Lado, but with the 



beak smaller and slenderer. Long. culm. 8 mm., al. 46, caud. 60, 



tars. 18. 



2. Nectarinia METALLiCA, Licht. 



Nectarinia inetallica, Licht. Doubl. p. L5 ; Hempr. &Ehr. Symb. 

 Physic. Av. t. 1 ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 224. 

 Five adult specimens. Shagra and Bolhaf. 

 There are Arabian specimens of this bird in the BerUn Museum. 



3. Merops cyanophrys, Cab. 



Merops cyanophrys, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 203, pi. vi. ; Cab. 

 Mus. Hein. iii. p. 137. 



Male and female from Hami. 

 " Iris brick-red." April. 



This fine and little-known species was discovered by Hemprich 

 and Ehrenberg near Qonfudah. It seems strictly confined to 

 Arabia. 



I add a short description of the birds before me, as that in Heug- 

 lin's work has evidently been taken from a much livelier-coloured 

 specimen : — 



Supra obsolete et pallide cBruginoso-virens, subceerulescenti lavatus, 

 subtus magis in cccrulescentem vergens ; gula, fronte et sujjer- 

 ciliis Icete cyaneis ; torque latiusculo gutturali striolaque j)c-r 

 oculum ducta nigris ; remigibus prim, iyi pogonio externo obsolete 

 virentibus, in pogonio interno pallide fulvesceniibus ; tertiariis 



