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GENEBA AND SPECIES OS BIHDS. 



phoenicTiroides (Jilyth). (p. 647.) 

 (Gates, t. c. ii. p. 340; Shelley, t. c. p. 96; 

 Hartert, Yog. Pal. Fauna, i. p. 224*; 

 Eeichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 357 ; Bianchi, 

 i;.c. pp. 236, 242, 246.) 



From S. Cashmere, 

 Punjab and Sind, 

 through Afghanistan, 

 Baluchistan and Persia; 

 to the S.B. corner of 

 the Caspian Sea. 



7. parvirostris, Hartert, J. f. O. 1890, p. 1.56 ; 

 id. J. f. O. 1891, p. 110; id. Vog. 

 Pal. Fauna, i. p. 223 1 ;, Bianchi, 

 t. 0. pp. 237, 242, 246. 

 ]_=ph(enicv,roides, Shelley, t. v. p. 96.] 



Transcaspia. 



8, akeleyi, Elliot, 'EieM Columb. Mub., Orn. i. 

 no. 2, p. 39 (1897).] 

 (Bianchi, t. v. pp. 235, 242, 246.) 



N. Somali-land. , 



9. assabensis, Salvad., Boll. Mus. Torino, xvii. 

 no. 425 (1902) ; id. Ibis, 1904, p. 473 ; 

 Bianchi, t. c. pp. 235, 242, 246. 

 (Of. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 629.) 



N. Somali-land 

 (Adiel and Bauakil 

 Country). 



10. deserti (Licht.). (p. 646, part.) 



(Shelley, t. c. p. 98, part. ; Eeichenow, t. c. 

 p. 355, part. ; Hartert, t. c. p. 222 ; Bianchi, 

 t. V. pp. 239, 242, 245.) 



Lybian Desert. 

 Nile Valley from Cairo 

 to the First Cataracts. 



11. SEunliarensis, Shelley, B. Afr. iii. p. 99, pi. xxi. 



(,fig. sinistr.). 

 (Bianchi, t. c. pp. 239, 242, 245.) 

 [Cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 302 (1905).] 



Abyssinian highlands. 



* Dr. Hartert also considers that the birds from E. Persia eastwards to Afghanistan 

 will be found to constitute a distinct race of A. phaniauroides {torn. cit. p. 224). 



t Another race is believed by Dr. Hartert to inhabit Tripoli {cf. Vog. Pal. -Fauna, 

 i. p. 223 ; A, ■phanicuroides, Whitaker (nee Blyth), Ibis, 1902, p. 654). 



