1895.] FEOM WESTEBN SOMALI-LAKD. 491 



certain seasons to the neighbourhood of the waters. Antinori 

 collected a series of specimens in yhoa, from March to December; 

 and as Dr. Eagazzi procured the species in February, it may be 

 taken as a resident in Sboa thi'oughout the year. Mr. Jackson 

 met with it at Turquel in December, aod also in the Teita district ; 

 but, curiously enough, the species is not included by Dr. Eeichenovv 

 in his list of the birds of German East Africa, where Terpsiphone 

 emini is recorded from Bukoba, and the iSouth- African T. perspi- 

 ciUata is the predominant species. 



Fam. HlEUNDIJTLD^. 



100. HiEUNDO ^THIOPICA. 



Hirundo uViif/ularis (nee Strickl.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 

 i. p. 153 (1869). 



Hirundo cethiopica, Blanf.; Oust. Bibl. EcoleHautes Etudes, xxxi. 

 p. 5(1886) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 146 (1885); Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 230 (1888) ; Eeichen. Viig. Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afr. p. 146 (1894). 



a. <S ad. Hargeisa, July 20, 1894. '^ 



b. 5 ad. ; c. d" juv. Luku, Sept. 17, 1894. Iris dark brown. 



Occurs, according to Heuglin, all along the Nile below 20°-21° 

 JN". lat., and in Abyssinia up to 10,000 feet. On the Red Sea it 

 is less common, but in Bogos-land it is migratory, arriving with 

 the first summer rain and remaining till September. Antinori 

 records it from the same country as arriving in May and leaving in 

 August. Antinori appears never to have met with the species 

 in Shoa, but Dr. Eagazzi procured a yoiuig bird at Gascia Mulu in 

 July. It has not occurred in Mr. Jackson's collections, but is 

 recorded by Dr. Eeichenow from Bagamoyo. 



Order PICIPOEMES. 

 Tam. PiciDiE. 



101. Thbipias schoeksis. 



Picus schoensis, Eiipp. ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 809 (1871). 



Thripias schoensis, Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 308 

 (1890). 



a. cJ ad. Dada, Nov. 21, 1894. Iris dark red. 



Tliis species was discovered by Eiippell in Shoa, and was obtained 

 by Heuglin in the woods on the Bongo and Wau Elvers. Antinori 

 and the Italian naturalists who succeeded that great explorer in 

 Shoa never met with the species. In Teita, Mr. Jackson obtained 

 the southern form, T. namaquus (Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 308), and 

 it is this species which Dr. Eeichenow records from Usegiiha, Nguru, 

 Aruscha, Ugogo, and Kakoma (Yog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 121). 



102. Dendropicus hempeichi. 



Picus hemprichi, H. & E. ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 804 (1871) 

 Dendropicus hemprichii, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 393 ; Hargitt, 



