332 ZOOLOGY. 



Family UPUPID^. 



72. Upupa epops, L. 



Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 102. 



U. minor, Lefebvre, p. 86. 



U. senegalensis, (?) Ferr. et Gal. No. 161.— Brehm, Habesch, No. 37 



Generally distributed. I shot one specimen, a female, 

 in July in the Anseba valley, aud saw others ; so some 

 must remain throughout the summer. It is just possible 

 that these may belong to Swainson's U. senegalensis, and 

 may be a distinguishable non-migratory race ; but the 

 differences appear to me of no importance. 



73. Irrisor erythrorhynchus (Lath.). 



Upupa erythrorhynchos, Lath., Gen. Syn., Supp. pi. 110. 

 f do. variety with a black tail, Salt, No. 22, App. p. xlvi. 

 Promerops erythrorhynchus, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 103. — Ferr. et 



Gal. No. 158. 

 P. senegalensis, Out. apud Blyth, Eeport on Zool. Coll. from 



SomaU Country, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, 1855, p. 299. 



Iris dark brown, legs pink, rather dull. The bill is 

 sometimes red throughout, at others entirely black ; more 

 frequently partly one colour, partly the other : it is con- 

 siderably longer (about ^ in.) in the male than in the 

 female. These birds have a very peculiar and rather un- 

 pleasant odour. They are met with in small flocks, which 

 are very noisy, and hunt for their food, small insects, 

 about the trunks and branches of trees. After hunting for 

 some time about one tree, they fly, often singly, one after 

 the other, to another, keeping up a great chattering. 



I found Irrisor erythrorhynchus vaost common in the 

 Anseba valley, and it appears chiefly to belong to the 



