496 DR. r.'b. sharpe oif BIRDS [May 21, 



p. 436), T. (hnalclsoni would come near the red-tipped species, 

 T. meriani and T. fischeri. Both of these species, however, liave 

 a band of white below the eye, which is absent in T. donald^oni^ 

 while the white spot on the sides of the neck, the leaden-blue colour 

 of the back, and the patch of light crimson which forms the crest 

 are characteristics of the new species. 



Order COEACIIFOEMES. 

 Tarn. CoRACiiD.!. 



1 13. CoRACIAS LOBTI. 



C'oracias lorti, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 399 : Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Gen. (2) vi. p. 224 (1888) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 20 

 (1892) ; Salvad. Mem. E. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 554 (1894 : 

 Webbe and Juba Elvers). 



a. (S ad. Hargeisa, July 21, 1894. 



b. 2 ad. Stonybrook, Ehrer Eiver, Aug. 19, 1894. 



c. c? ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 19, 1894. Iris brown ; legs 



yellow-ochre. 



d. 2 ad. Dada, Nov. 21, 1894. 



114. COBACIAS N^CTirS. 



C'oracias pihsa, Lath.; Heugl. Orn. N.O-Afr. i. p. 172 (1869). 



Coracias ncevius, Daud. ; Shellev, Ibis, 1885, p. 399; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Geuov. (2) i. p. 115, vi. p. 223 (1888); Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 24 (1892) ; id. Ibis, 1892, p. 316 ; Salvad. 

 Mem. E. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 554 (1894 : Aduma) ; Eeichen. 

 Yog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 124 (1894). 



a. c? ad. Dabulli, Sept. 16, 1894. Iris brown ; eyelid yellowish 

 brown ; legs dirty yellow-ochre. 



Found, according to Heuglin, on the coast-lands of Abyssinia, 

 in Kordofan, and on the "White Xile. From January to August 

 Antinori met with it at Let-Marafia in Shoa, and he says that 

 isolated individuals are met ^ith in the low and middle " Xolla," 

 but it is a bird which loves open country. Mr. Jackson procured 

 the species at Machako's, and Dr. Eeichenow gives two localities, 

 Assandaui and Igonda. 



Fam. AlcedinidjE, 



115. Ceetle rfdis. 



Ceryle i-udis (Linn.); Heugl. Orn. KO.-Afr. i. p. 184 (1869); 

 Salvad. Ann, ,Mus. Genov. ,(2) i. p. 112 (1884), vi. p. 222 (1888) ; 

 Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xxxi. art. no. 10, p. 3 (1886) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xviii. p. 109 (1892) ; Eeichen. A'og. 

 Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 130 (1894). 



a. S ad. Bainhou, Jan. 10, 1894. Iris broAvn. 



■ Heuglin states that the Pied Kingfisher is found from the 



