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fuscous-brown, with broad ferruginous tips, whereas in the Indian bird 

 the two colours are completely blended, or there is (at most) but a faint 

 indication of the break, which must be sought for to be observed. Sa- 

 vigny's coloured figure of the Egyptian bird must either represent a 

 distinct species, or both size and colouring are exceedingly exaggerated.* 



*(Ena capensis, (Latham). Abyssinia. 

 Pterocles exustus, (Tern.) : female, from Nubia. 



*Pt. senegalensis, Lath. (Pt. guttatus, Licht.) Mas. Ditto. 



*Clamator (?) Erkelii, (Riippell). Abyssinia. 



*Glareola limeata, Riippell. Two specimens. Ditto. 



# LoBIVANELLUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Riippell. Ditto. 



*L. senegalensis, (L. ; Vanellus lateralis, A. Smith). Ditto. 

 Sarciophorus coronattjs, (L.) Nubia. 



* „ pileatus, (L.) Ditto. 



* „ melanopterus, (Eiippell). Abyssinia. 

 *Metopidius africanus, (L.) Abyssinia. 



Philomachus pugnax, (L.) Ditto. 



Sypheo tides (?) Vtgorsii, A. Smith CO. scolopacea, Tern. ; O.rufi- 

 crista, A. Smith, apud nos., Catal.) S. Africa. 



*S. melanogaster, (Eiippell). Female. Abyssinia. Closely affined to 

 the Bengal Floriken (S. bengalensis) ; but shorter in the tarse, with some 

 other distinctions. 



S. afer, (Latham). Two specimens. S. Africa. 

 *Scopus umbretta, (L.) Abyssinia.f 



the group of Turtures auriti; and, of this latter group, may remark that T. rupi- 

 cola, (Pallas,) replaces T. meena in the Simla and Masuri hills. T. Dussumieri, 

 (Tem.), "with broad collar, from Malasia and the Philippines," we have never 

 seen from continental Malasia (L e, the Malayan peninsula) ; where T. tigrinus 

 abounds, distinct alike from T. suratensis and T. chinensts. Str. gaimardi, 

 C. L. Bonap., "with much narrower collar, and much shorter toes," than Str, 

 Dussumieri, is described from the Marianne Islands ; and the fifth Asiatic species 

 of Streptopelia is the Indian humilis, so remarkable for the diversity of the 

 sexes.) 



* The Prince of Canino separates the Indian and N. African races. 



t" Mr. Frith remarks the affinity of this curious genus for Anastomus ; vide 

 especially the young of the latter. We suspect, from the figures we have seen of 

 that extraordinary and gigantic wader from the White Nile, lately described by 

 Mr. Gould as Bal^eniceps rex, that this latter bears mucli the same relationship 

 to Scopus, that Cancroma does to Ardea and especially Nycticorax. Bal^e- 



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