ABYSSINIA AND THE BOGOS COUNTRY.—APPENDIX. 305 
The black-billed, and nearly allied, S¢. dalwnarum, Strickl. (of which the Bremen 
Museum possesses a fine specimen from Walvisch Bay), has the shafts of the quills above 
and beneath all white.—O. F. 
[Iris brown; beak black; legs black. 
The only one procured.— W, J.] 
220. STERNA PANAYA, Gul. 
Sterna fuliginosa, Heugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 350. 
panaya, Heugl. Fauna des Roth. Meer. no. 318; Finsch & Hartl. Ornith. Central-Polyn. 
p. 228; id. Vogel Ostafr. p. 833. no, 435. 
a. Massuah. August 24. 
Long. al. Rectr. ext. Rectr. int. Culm. 
gi gl 4ll gil gi gl yl 6! 
An old bird in full dress. This species has been often erroneously confounded with 
St. fuliginosa. In the Berlin Museum are examples of both species from the Arabian 
coast of the Red Sea, labelled St. fuliginosa, Licht. 
Von Heuglin’s Anous tenuirostris, from the Guano island Bur-da-rebschi, is the true 
A, stolidus.—O. F. 
[Beak black; legs and feet black. 
Only one procured. W. J.] 
221. HyYDROCHELIDON FISSIPES (Linn.). 
Hydrochelidon nigra, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 139. no. 514; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 738; id. Fauna 
d. Rothen Meer. no. 315; Brehm, Habesch, p. 228. no. 167. 
a. Zoulla. June 138. 
[Beak black; legs and feet red. 
The only one procured.— W. J.] 
APPENDIX IL 
Report to the Council upon his Proceedings in Connexion with the Abyssinian Expedition. 
By Wiuuiam Jesse, C.M.Z.S., Zoologist to the Abyssinian Expedition’. 
GenTLEMEN.—It is with pleasure that I find myself in a position to lay before you 
a sketch of my proceedings during my recent journey with the late expedition in 
Abyssinia. 
I should first like to state that, my late arrival on the scene of action having pre- 
vented me from accomplishing any thing like the work I wished to carry out, I eagerly 
1 Reprinted from P. Z. 8, 1869 (p. 111 ¢¢ segqg.), in order to show the exact route followed by Mr. Jesse. See 
also the map herewith, Pl. XXIII.—P. L. 8. 
