424 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: Compendium. 
and rather more broadly so with blue as they approach the centre 
pair; on the sides of the head a broad black band runs through 
the eye, margined beneath by a rather narrower pale blue one; 
chin and throat fawn colour, with the ends of the feathers slightly 
more strongly washed with greenish yellow than the crown; remain- 
der of the under surface green, with the feathers of the abdomen 
and under tail-coverts washed with blue towards their edges; under 
surface of the quills brown, the basal portion of their inner margins 
and the under wing-coverts pale fawn colour; under surface of the 
tail ashy brown, with a black terminal bar. Bill and legs black. 
Tot. lg. 9,8 inches; culmen 1; wing 31; tail 5,5; tars, 0,4. 
Hab.: Rovuma River, East Africa. 
239. Merops Revoilie. 
M. E. Oustalet, Mission G. Revoil au Pays Comalis. Faune 
et Flore. Note sur les Oiseaux. p. 5. 
Vertice, alis caudaque viridibus, gula et pectore albidis, abdo- 
mine fulvescente, superciliis, lumbis, caudae tectrieibus inferioribus 
et superioribus coeruleis, regione interscapulari fulva, plaga post- 
-oeulari, rostro pedibusque nigris. 
Long. tot. 0,185 M.; L. de l’aile 0,080; de la queue 0,078; du 
bec 0,029; du tarse 0,010. 
Il appartient probablement au sous-genre Melitophagus et ‚se 
rapproche ä certains egards du Merops Bullocki Vieill. et M. Bul- 
lockoides. 
Hab.: Pays des Comalis. 
Fam. CAPRIMULGIDAE. 
240. Caprimulgus nobilis. 
H. B. Tristram, Ibis, Voi. 6. No. 21. 1882. p. 134. pl. 3. 
©. atro-fuscus, nigro minute vermieulatus; capite et oceipite 
striis nigris elongatis insignibus, gula cinnamomeo maculata; faseia 
gulari alba interrupta; pectore fusco lineis nigris striato; humeris 
et teetrieibus alarıbus brunneo-umbrinis, quaque pluma insigni 
annulo albicante terminata; alarum primariis nigris, tertia maculam 
albam, quarta vittam interruptam in secunda vix videndam osten- 
dente; seeundariis nigris rufo maculatis; tectrieibus subalaribus et 
abdomine castaneis, brunneo transversim striatis; cauda nigra, 
faseiis latis fuscis vermieulatis interrupta; reetrieibus duabus ex- 
ternis eastaneo fasciatis, eodemque modo omnibus reetrieibus subtus 
rufo fasciatis. Long. tot. 12; alae 8,75; caud. 6,2. 
Hab.: Rendova Island, Solomons. 
(Fortsetzung folgt.) 
