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given references to Von Heuglin's work on the birds of North- 

 eastern Africa, as well as to the following papers on the birds of 

 Somali-land : — 



G. E. Shelley. — " On Mr, E. Lort Phillips's collection of Birds 

 from Somali Land." Ibis, 1885, pp. 389-418, pis. x.-xii. 



E. OusTALET. — " Catalogue des Oiseaux rapportes par M. G. 

 Eevoil de son deuxieme Voyage aux pays des ^omalis 

 (Afrique Orientale)." Bibl. de I'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 

 xxxi. art. no. 10, pp. 1-14 (1886). 



T. Salvadoei. — " Uccelli del Somali raccolti da D. Eugenio dei 

 Principe Euspoli." Mem. E. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. 

 pp. 547-564. 



I have also referred to the excellent papers by Count Salvador! 

 on the birds of Shoa, and to the recently published ' Viigel 

 Deutsch-Ost-Afi"ika's ' of Dr. Eeichenow. 



For the sake of convenience, I have followed the order adopted 

 in my papers on the collections made by Mr. P. J. Jackson (Ibis, 

 1891, pp. 233-260, 587-602 ; 1892, pp. 152-164, 229-322, 534- 

 555), so as to render a comparison possible between the avifaunae 

 of the two districts. The present collection being the largest that 

 has ever been made in Somali-land, I have taken the opportunity 

 of giving in full the distribution of the species as stated by 

 Heughn, Salvadori, and Eeichenow, so that we can now draw 

 some conclusions as to the relations of the avifauna of Somali- 

 land with that of the surrounding countries, which it has not been 

 possible to do before. 



The localities of the specimens are mostly to be found in 

 Dr. Smith's map ; but for the identification of those not mentioned 

 there I have been indebted to the kindness of Mr. P. Gillett, who 

 accompanied Dr. Smith on his expedition, but who bad to return 

 to England from the Shebeli on receipt of the news of his father's 

 death. He brought the collections made up to the date of the 

 return of the expedition to the Webi-Shebeli safely to the coast, 

 and he has given me the names of the different camping-places. 



Order PASSEEES. 

 Pam. CoEViD^. 



1. CORVULTTTE CEASSIEOSTRIS. 



Archicoracc crassirostris (Eiipp.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 507. 



Corvultur crassirostris (Eiipp.); Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 25 (1877); 

 Salvad. Ann. Genov. (2) i. p. 205 (1884), vi. p. 302 (1886). 



a, 6. 6 2 ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 22, 1894. 



This large Eaven is said by Heuglin to be an inhabitant of the 

 mountains of Abyssinia, above 4000 feet, northwards to Hamasien, 

 and eastwards to Qalabat and Takah, south to Shoa and the 

 Somali plateaux, and thence, in the elevated districts, westwards 

 from the Upper White Nile. Antinori found the species common 



