1895.] FBOM WESTEEK SOMAU-LAND. 515 



which discharge themselves along the coast of Samhar, in Tigrie 

 and Amhara westwards to Qalabat ; it is found between 1000 

 and 8000 feet, occurring on Lake Tana. It does not seem to be 

 very plentiful in Shoa, but was obtained there by the Italian 

 naturalists, Mr. Jackson met with it in Ukambani ; and Dr. 

 Keichenow records it from Ussagara, the Ugalla River, Lake 

 Tanganyika, and Irangi, in German East Africa. 



166. Tbingoides htpoletjcus. 



Tringoides hypoleums (L.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1172 

 (1873) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 222 (1884). 



Totanus hypoleucus, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 42 (1894). 



a. 6 ad. Dullaat, July 13, 1894. 



Found throughout Xorth-eastern Africa, according to Heuglin, 

 both on the sea-coast and on the inland waters, and receiving 

 accessions of numbers in spring, autumn, and winter. It goes 

 south to East Kordofan, to the White and Blue Niles, to Abys- 

 sinia and the Gulf of Aden. Antinori procured several specimens 

 at Lake Cialalaka in Shoa in November, and Dr. Eeicheuow 

 records it from the Pangani and Ugalla rivers and Lake Tan- 

 ganyika. 



Order PODICIPEDIDIFOEMES. 



167. Tachtbaptes capensis. 



Podiceps minor, L. ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1363 (1873) 



Podiceps jluviatilis capensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 415. 



Podlceps capeiisis, Licht. ; Salvai. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 253 

 (1884) ; id. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 564 (1894). 



Tachyhaptes capensis, Salvad. ^nn. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 326 

 (1888). 



Coh/mbus Jluviatilis (nee Tunst.), Reichen. Vcig. Deutsch-Ost- 

 Afr. p. 17 (1894). 



a. Ad. Sheik Mahomed, Nov. 3, 1894. Iris brown ; legs gi-ey, 

 mottled lighter ; corners of mouth and base of under man- 

 dible greenish white. 



I described the African bird last year, under the impression 

 that the name P. capensis was a nomen nudum. I find, however, 

 that Count Salvadori had given a diagnosis of the species in 1884, 

 and it stands, therefore, as Tachyhaptes capenm (Salvad.). 



Heuglin does not distinguish between the African and European 

 Little Grebes. He procured the species once in the Abyssinian 

 highlands in summer plumage, and this was doubtless T. capensis. 

 The bird which he speaks of as occui-ring in Egypt in winter is 

 T. minor, and this may be the species of Kordofan and the Blue 

 Nile. 



Antinori met with the Little Grebe in Shoa in March and April. 

 Dr. Reichenow notices it from Igonda, the Pangani River, Lake 

 Jipi, where it breeds, as well as in Masai-land. 



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