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Third. There is in the same institution an example of 
the small race of the Spotted Eagle (Aguila maculata) 
from Nubia. 
Fourth. Messrs. Dresser and Blandford mention an 
Abyssinian Roller (Coracias abyssinica, Bodd) from Egypt, 
(the “Ibis,” 1874, p. 337,) which is a species which is said 
to have occurred in Britain (Bree “Birds of Europe,” I, 
p. 157). 
Fifth, When Macgregor speaks of a large Indian King- 
fisher arrayed in red and blue, on the Zrier river near Man- 
sourah, in “The Rob Roy on the Jordan,” he probably 
alludes to Halcyon smyrnensts. 
Sixth. At p. 278 of the “ Histoire Naturelle d’Egypte,” 
Audouin and Savigny include the Grasshopper Warbler, 
and in their thirteenth folio plate they give a figure of it. 
The species, however, treated of by these authors are some 
of them Syrian. 
Seventh. The Striped Bunting (Amberiza striolata, 
Licht.) is stated in Temminck’s “ Manuel” (3rd part, p. 641) 
to have been brought from Egypt by Ehrenberg and 
Riippell, but there is probably a mistake here. I find no 
mention of Ehrenberg’s specimen in the “ Symbole Physica,” 
and Riippell’s, if correctly named, were probably brought 
from southern Nubia. Here let me enter my protest 
against the loose fashion in which the term Egypt is made 
use of. Egypt proper ends at Assouan (the first cataract), 
though Captain Shelley, for the convenience of Nile tourists, 
has very properly extended his work as far south as Wady- 
Halfeh. 
Eighth. Saxicola erythrea, Ehr, S. Lbanotica, Trist., 
S. finschii, Heugl., are three names referring to one species, 
which, though not included by Captain Shelley, is stated 
to have occurred by Mr. Dresser on Von Heuglin’s authority, 
and by Canon Tristram, who mentions having obtained it 
from Egypt (“ Ibis,” 1870, p. 495). 
