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Peatincola rubicola, (L.) Abyssinia. 



# Pr. (?) sordida, (Eiippell). Two specimens. Ditto. 



*Saxicola isabellina, Eiippell. Ditto. 

 S. aurita, Temminck. Ditto. 



*St?lvia leucopogon, Meyer. (S, passerina, Temminck ; 8. subal- 

 pina, C. L. Bonap.) Egypt. 



*Salicaria (?) ctnnamomea, Eiippell. Abyssinia. This curious little 

 bird is apparently congeneric with the Teibuea luteoventris, Hodgson, 

 P. Z. S. 1845, p. 30, and J. A. S. XIV, 583 ; but as we have good speci- 

 mens of neither for comparison, we can only thus indicate the affinity. 

 Phylloscopus Bonellii, (Vieillot ; Sylvia Nattereri, Temminck). 



*Tchitrea melanogaster, (Swainson). Abyssinia. In plumage like 

 some specimens of Tch. affinis, nobis, but the bill and feet much smaller. 



# Hirundo riocourii, Savigny (H. cahirica, Licht. ; _ET. rustica orien- 

 talis, Schlegel). Specimen from Abyssinia, with under-parts not more 

 rufous than in ordinary H. rustica, from which it certainly (the present 

 specimen at least) is insufficiently distinguished. 



*H. melanocrissus, Eiippell. Abyssinia. 



*H. (?) pristoptera, Eiippell. A highly interesting and separable 

 form of Swallow, with minute bill and feet, and the outer margin of its 

 first primary having the extremities of the filaments reverted into hooks, 

 as in the N. American H. serripennis, Audubon, which however is a 

 Cotile (or burrowing bank Swallow). 



*Oeiolus meloxitta, Eiippell. Abyssinia. 



*Nectarinia taeaze, (Stanley). M. and F. Abyssinia. 

 N. Formosa, (L.) M. and F. Ditto. 



*W. cruentata, Eiippell. Ditto. 



*N. habessinica, Ehrenberg. Ditto. 



*N. affinis, Eiippell. Ditto. 



*N. metallica, Liehtenstein. Nubia. 



*Alsocomus guinea, (L.) Abyssinia. 

 Als. arquatrix, (Tern.) Ditto. 



*Turtur erythrophrys, Swainson. Two specimens are sent as T. 

 risorius apud Riippell, one from Nubia, the other from Abyssinia. Both 

 differ from the Indian Collared Turtle-dove (T. risorius verus), and 

 agree with that of S. Africa (T. vinaceus), in having a much broader 

 black semi-collar upon the nape. Both also are of a much paler hue than 

 the S. African bird, especially on the crown. The Nubian is larger, the 

 wing measuring 7 in. long, with its 1st primary f in. shorter than the 

 next, the 2nd and 3rd equal, and the 4th | in. longer than the 1st ; tail 

 rounded, its outermost feathers f in. shorter than the medial. Colour 



