1881.] FROM SOCOTRA AND S. ARABIA. 959 



not very good, I add a few remarks upon the birds (five specimens) 

 before me : — 



Ad. Icete citrino-Jlava, rectricibus, retnigibus et scapularibus 

 fusco-nigricantibus, pallide ochroleuco marginatis ; tectricibus 

 alarum minoribus et subalaribus Icete Jlavis ; subcaudalibus 

 pallide flamdis ; roatro nigricante. Jun. minus Icete tincta, 

 supra sordide adumbrata, capite et pectore 'puriits Jlavis ; man- 

 dibul a pallida, apice nigricante. Jay. flavedine vix ulla ; no- 

 tceo toto sordide et obsolete ex Jlavido fulvescente ; subtus pal- 

 lidior ; rostro pallescente. 



The colour of the young bird is very curious and indistinct. In 

 the adult the dark blackish-browu tcrtials and scapulars, broadly 

 margined with pale isabelliue, form a most prominent feature. 



A second species of the genus Ghrysospiza is Fringillu lutea of 

 Licht. (Temm. PI. Col. 365), from Sennaar (cf. Heugl. loc. cit. 

 p. 637). 



9. Hyphantornis galbula, Riipp. 



Hyphantornis galbula^ Heugl. loc. cit. p. 557, t. xviii. fig. d (fig. 

 med.) ; Riipp. N, Wirb. Abyss, p. 92, t. 32. 



Two adult males from Hami. " Iris orange-red." 



From Qonfudah, in the Berlin Museum, by Hempr. & Ehrenb. 



10. Galerida cristata (L.). 



Galerida cristata, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 680; Hartl. & 

 Finsch, Ostafr. p. 460. 

 One specimen. Shugra. 

 Well known from the Gulf of Aden. 



11. Ardea brevipes, Hempr. & Ehrenb. 



Ardea brevipes, Hempr. & Ehrenb. Symb. Phys. Av. fol. M; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 1082. 



An adult male from Bolhaf. 

 _ It remains doubtful to me whether this bird is really to be con- 

 sidered distinct from A. atricapilla, or merely a local variety of 

 this species, confined, as Ileuglin maintains, to the coasts of the Red 

 Sea and the Gulf of Aden. 



12. Larus leucophthalmos, Licht. 



Larus leucophthalmos, Heugl. loc. cit. p. 1396 ; Finsch & Hartl. 

 Ostafr. p. 821. 



Two specimens, an adult and a younger male, from Hami. 

 " Iris grey ; beak of a uniform greyish black." 



