ABYSSINIA AND THE BOGOS COUNTRY.—APPENDIX II. 313 
pterus, Charadrius pecuarius, C. minor, Totanus stagnatilis, Himantopus autumnalis, 
Rhynchaspis clypeata, Larus leucopheus, Sterna minuta, S. macroptera, S. , sp., and 
Hydrochelidon fissipes. Mr. Blanford’s collection exceeds, therefore, that of Mr. Jesse 
by seventy-two species. Five species! are described as new, and seven are excellently 
figured in coloured plates. 
Having altered my views in respect to some of the species in consequence of the better 
knowledge gained in preparing our great work since last year, it is necessary to append 
some corrections to the preceding paper. After having done so, I think it will be 
interesting to enumerate those species of Mr. Blanford’s not collected by Mr. Jesse, in 
order to complete the list of birds obtained and observed during the Abyssinian ex- 
pedition by the indefatigable naturalists attached to the British Army. The total 
number of species of birds amounts to 322, being nearly half of all the species supposed 
to occur in the whole of North-eastern Africa, a result which, when we consider the com- 
paratively short stay, must surprise everybody who is acquainted with the difficulties of 
collecting in a tropical climate and under such circumstances. 
Page 200. no. 3. GYPAETUS BARBATUS. 
Mr. Blanford’s remark (0. ¢. p. 299) that the Abyssinian Lammergeyer is distinguished 
not only by the nudity of the basal portions of the tarsus, but also by its “‘ very much 
smaller” size, seems to be, indeed, correct, as far as I can judge from a specimen from 
the Pyrenees in the Bremen collection, which has the wing 2! 73" long, and the tail 20”. 
Von Heuglin gives the length of the wing of Gypaetos barbatus meridionalis (!) in 
accordance with me as 27-28", and that of the tail as 17-184". 
P. 202. no. 7. Buteo avcur. 
In the Appendix to our “Vogel Ostafricas” (p. 853) I declared positively the 
identity of B. auguralis, Salvad. (Atti della Societ. Ital. di Scienze Nat. viii. 1866), with 
this species, after a careful comparison of the type specimens which Dr. Salvadori was 
kind enough to send us. It may be allowed me to correct this as a mistake; for, after 
receiving the type specimens of Riippell’s B. augur through the kindness of Mr. Erckel, 
of the Senckenbergian Museum, it was evident that the B. augur in the Bremen collec- 
tion (described in our work, p. 58, “ Kin jiingerer Vogel”) was by no means the true 
B. augur, but Salvadori’s B. auguralis. Von Heuglin (Ornithol. Nordost Africas, p. 93) 
has distinguished both species accurately, but thinks that B. auguralis is identical with 
B. anceps, Brehm (Naumannia, 1855, p. 6), the type of which he seems to have 
compared and described in the Berlin Museum. To judge from the description of 
Brehm, who does not say where his type was deposited, I strongly inclined to believe 
it might have been a specimen of B. desertorum; but von Heuglin assures me it 
1 The descriptions of these new species have been already published in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History’ for November 1869, pp. 329 et 330. 
