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specimen), 2nd April, 1868, and at Kokai and Waliko in July. I also observed this 
bird in the desert near Amba in August. Noisy, like the other two species; flight 
peculiar, rolling right and left, the body acting as the pivot. I shot a young bird also 
in August, without the long tail-feathers, and with the yellow edge to the base of the 
bill common to birds just fresh from the nest. Plentiful at Kokai and the Anseba. 
—W. J.) 
35. Coractas PILOSA (Lath.). 
Coracias levaillanti, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 23. no. 85; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 126. 
pilosa, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 38. 
a. 8. Koomaylee. March 22 (no. 166). 
6. 2. Senafé. May 13 (no. 1982). 
c. 9. Kokai. July 9 (no. 530). 
d. $. Kokai. July 11 (no. 1316). 
e. d. Kokai. July 11 (no. 1986). 
f. 2. Maragaz. July 27. 
Al. Caud. Culm. Tars. Dig. int. 
6" 10" 5! 15" 102" 10g" 2... Abyssinia. 
6 10 5 Ql 152 11 a Sere cerca Gambia. 
7 4 7 17 12 — ... 6. Damaraland. 
7 #6 5 4 16 12 a aad Damaraland. 
There is no difference between specimens from the north-east, west, and south, 
either in coloration or in size. I cannot agree with Dr. v. Heuglin, who considers the 
north-eastern ones to be permanently smaller.—0O. F. 
[Iris brown; legs and feet dirty greenish yellow. 
Procured between Koomaylee and Sooroo, 22nd March, 1868; Senafé May 13th. 
The only specimens I ever saw were shot about there or up the passes through which 
the expedition passed. It was plentiful at Kokai on the Lebka and along the river 
Anseba. At Kokai, shot while hawking flying ants in the gloaming, in company with 
a number of Caprimulgus inornatus and a few Eurystomus afer. Noisy—W. J.] 
Fam. ALCEDINID. 
36. HALCYON SENEGALENSIS (Linn. ). 
Halcyon cancrophaga, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 129. 
senegalensis, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 157. no. 68. 
a. 6. Maragaz. July 29 (no. 1). 
b. 2. Maragaz. July 29 (no. 1161). 
c. 9. Gabena Weldt Gonfallon. August 7 (no. 1885.) 
Not yet observed from Bogosland.—0O. F. 
[Iris brown; beak, upper mandible crimson, lower black. 
VOL, VII.—PaRT Iv. May, 1870. OT 
