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appeared to be restricted to the tropical dry coast 

 region. 



M. alhicollis usually keeps to trees, but I bave seen 

 it settle on the ground, in company with M. viridis- 

 simus. 



59. M. Lafresnayii, Guer. 



? M. erythropterus, ? large variety. Salt, No. 19, App. p. xlvi. — 

 Gu^r. Eev. Zool. 1843, p. 322.— Ferr. et Gal. Voy. iii. p. 

 243 ; Atlas, pi. 15. — Brehm, Habesch, No. 35. 



M. variegatus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 100. 



M. Lefebvrii, Desm. et Prev. — Lefebvre, Voyage en Abyssinie, 

 Zool. p. 83 ; Atlas, pi. 5. 



Iris crimson, legs brown, bill black. A common bird 

 in the passes from 3,000 ft. upwards, and often seen on 

 the highlands, especially after March. 



In the Anseba Valley this bird was replaced by the 

 next species. 



60. M. erythropterus, Gm. 



Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 464. — Salt, No. 16, App. p. xlvi. — Riipp. Syst. 

 Uebers. No. 99. — Lefebvre, p. 83. 



Common in the Anseba Valley in July. I unfor- 

 tunately only took a single specimen, for the birds were 

 moulting, and I mistook them at the time for specimens 

 of M. Lafresnayii in bad plumage. 



Family HALCYONID^. 



6i. Halcyon semicaerulea (Forsk.). 



Forsk. Descr. Animalium, 1775, p. 2.— Riipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 68 



t. 24, fig. 1, et Syst. Uebers. No. 87.— Ferr. et Gal. No. 166. 

 Dacelo semicmrulea, Heugl. Om. N. 0. Afr. No. 147. 



Iris brown, bill and legs scarlet. A purely insectivo- 

 rous bird, rarely seen near water, and occasionally found 



