298 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
b. Massuah. August 24. 
ce. 2. Ain, August 16 (no. 83). 
[Iris lemon-yellow ; legs and feet greenish yellow. 
I procured two immature birds at Massuah.—W. J.] 
Fam. CICONIID. 
199. Ciconia aABDIMII, Licht. 
Sphenorhynchus abdimii, Hempr. & Ehrb. Symb. Phys. t. v; Riipp. Atlas. t. 8; id. Syst. Uebers, 
p. 122. no. 443; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 628; Brehm, Habesch, p. 226. no. 145; Finsch & 
Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 721. no. 377. 
a. 2. Undel Wells. April 7 (no. 418). 
6. g. Senafé. May 8 (no. 1933). 
c. Bejook. July 29. 
[Iris brown ; beak dirty green, tip red; a fleshy skin round base of beak, eye, cheek, 
ear, and chin flesh-colour, on the forehead and round the eye in front crimson; rest of 
the skin blue, except the chin, which is crimson: skin of the neck red; legs dirty white, 
knees and feet dirty red, skin under the wing-bone pink; tongue very short. 
Contents of stomach beetles. At Koomaylee these birds (a small flock of five or 
six) frequented the carrion carcasses, possibly with a view to feed on the maggots, 
with which the road even was alive.—W. J.] 
Fam. TANTALIDZ. 
200. Scopus uMBRETTA, L. 
Scopus umbretta, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 121. no. 485; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 618; id. Fauna 
des Roth. Meer. no. 262; Brehm, Habesch, p: 226. no. 146; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. 
p. 727. no. 328. 
a. g. Senafé. April 17 (no. 852). 
b. 6. Taconda. April 21 (no. 430). 
c. 2. Kooseret. July 2 (no. 767). 
d. 3. Ain. July 6 (no. 1698). 
[Iris brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
Localities: Senafé, April; Taconda, April; Ain and Kooseret, July. Contents of 
stomach larve of water-insects—W. J.] 
201. Isis caruncunata, Riipp. 
Ibis carunculata, Ripp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 19. f. 1; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 122. no. 448; Heugl. Syst. 
Uebers. no. 634; id. Fauna des Roth. Meer. no. 265. 
a. 3. Senafé. April 23 (no. 458). 
