520 APPENDIX. 



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ORNITHOLOGY. 



Certhia. — This supposed Certhia or creeper is among the most 

 interesting birds discovered by Emin Pasha. It is the third species 

 of a genus, of which Salpornis spilonota, a rare bird of Central India, 

 is the type. A second species (S. Salvadorii) has been found in 

 Benguella. The species discovered by Emin Pasha has been described 

 by me under the name of S. Emini, Hartl. — Hartlaub. 



Corythaix. — Emin Pasha names this genus in proof of Monbuttu 

 being linked to the fauna of tropical Western Africa. It should, 

 however, be observed that two fine species {Corythaix leucotis and 

 C. leucolophus) represent this genus in North-eastern Africa, and 

 that several other species, most of which have been discovered only 

 recently, are met with in Eastern Africa. — Hartlaub. 



Birds of Monbuttu. — The species referred to on p. 314 remain 

 doubtful until their skins shall have been examined. This applies 

 more especially to Turacus, which Emin Pasha was not able to com- 

 pare with specimens obtained farther west, as also to his species of 

 a Corythaix, which is hardly identical with Linne's Corythaix jpersa. 

 The Musophaga n. sp. is undoubtedly Musqphaga Rossce, Gould, which 

 is numerously represented in the collection which Bohndorff brought 

 home from the Nyam-Nyam country. I learn from letters written 

 in April 1887 that Emin Pasha had not then been able to forward 

 the Monbuttu birds intended for me. — Hartlaub. 



Passer domesticus (p. 303). — This bird is identical with Brehm's 

 Passer rufidorsalis (Speng, Zoolog. Jahrbiicher, ii. p. 325). 



Picus. — The species of this bird which Dr. Emin describes as 

 being nearly related to Picus schoensis is that bird itself. Two speci- 

 mens from Okkela are in the Bremen Museum. — Hartlaub. 



Pogonorhynchus (p. 262). — No bird named Bessomis Rolleti 

 exists. There are only two specimens named after Bollet, namely, 

 Pogonorhynchus Rolleti and Oriolus Rolleti, Salvad. The bird de- 

 scribed by Dr. Emin as " beautiful " is probably a Pogonorhynchus. 

 This is, however, doubtful, for Dr. Emin has sent specimens of both 

 birds, which may consequently both occur in the same locality. — 

 Hartlaub. 



BOTANY. 



" Gallery Forest," a descriptive term first introduced by Dr. 

 Schweinfurth. See " The Heart of Africa," i. pp. 504, 506 ; ii. p. 166. 

 — Hatzel. 



