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lateral margin bordering the black eye-streak, and very little of it even 

 there. 



Dendrobates goertan, (Gm. ; D. poiocephalus, Swainson). Two spe- 

 cimens, from Nubia. 



# Campethera nubica, (Boddaert) ; Picus punctatus, Cuv. ; P.notaius, 

 Lichtenstein. S. Africa. 



*C. .ethiopica, (Hemprich). Two specimens, from Abyssinia. 



*L^emodon Brucei, Riippell. Abyssinia. 



*L. undatus, Riippell. Abyssinia. 



*L. melanocephaltjs, Riippell. Abyssinia. 



*Barbatula chrysocoma, (Temminck). Abyssinia. 



*Trachyphonus margaritatus, Riippell. Abyssinia. 



*Turacus leucotis, Riippell. Abyssinia. 

 Colius senegalensts, L. Abyssinia. 



*C. leucotis, Riippell. Two specimens, from Abyssinia. 



*Oxylophus afer, (Leach, = Levaillantii, Swainson, and ater apud 

 Riippell ; nee ater, Grmelin, which = serratus, Sparrman, a common 

 Cape species, which the late H. E. Strickland received from Kordofan).* 

 Specimen from Abyssinia. Throat and fore-neck black, the feathers 

 laterally edged with dull white, which gradually increases downward ; 

 the black predominating much more than as represented in Swainson's 

 figure (Zool. III. 2nd series, Vol. I, pi. 13), and spreading downward over 

 the breast and flanks. 



*Centroptjs superciliosus, Riippell. Abyssinia. 



*Caprimulgus isabellinus, Temminck. Ditto. 



*Corvultur crassirostris, Riippell. Ditto. 



*Corvus PHffiocEPHALUs, Cabanis. (C.scapulatus apud Riippell. f) Ditto. 



*Lamprotornis cyaniventris, nobis, n. s. : L. nitens apud Riippell, from 

 Abyssinia ; nee nitens (L.), of S. Africa, from which it differs in having a 

 conspicuously shorter bill, and in various details of colouring. In L. 

 nitens (verus), the whole plumage is glossy mneous or steel-green, 

 brightest on the wings, and mingled with steel-blue on the head and neck : 

 the abdominal region being of the same hue as the back, but an admix- 

 ture of steel-blue is observable on the tibial plumes, axiliaries, and 



* Vide P. Z. S. Nov. 26, 1850. 



f Vide the Prince of Canino, in the Comptes Rendus, torn, xxxvii (1853), p. 

 829. This Abyssinian specimen, however, accords precisely (even in measure- 

 ments) with Swainson's description of C. curvirostris, — ? (nee Daudin, v. 

 leuconotus, Sw.), of W. Africa, which is stated to be distinct from the nearly 

 affined C. scapulatus, Daudin, of the Cape ; while another, of similar colouring, 

 will stand as C. madagascariensis, C. L. Bonaparte. 



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