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# Ciconia Abdimii, Licht. (genus Sjo lienor 'Jiynchus, Hempricli ; Abdi- 

 <mia, and the species — Aid. splienorhyncha, C. L. Bonap.) Ditto. 

 Ardea puepueea, (L.) Two specimens. Ditto. 

 Herodias asha, (Sykes; A. gularis, Bosc. ; H. pannosa? Gould). 

 From the Eed Sea. We have long suspected the identity of these j and 

 so far as the present specimen enables an opinion to be formed on the 

 subject, our suspicions are confirmed : but it is still desirable to compare 

 adults in breeding livery. (The Prince of Canino admits all three as dis- 

 tinct. Comptes Rendus, 1855, p. 720.) 



H. BUBULCUS, (Savigny). Sent as H. Veranii, (Roux), from Egypt. 

 This is the third specimen which we have received as H. Veranii, the 

 others being respectively from Sicily and Algeria. We cannot perceive 

 in them the slightest difference in size, proportions, or colouring, from 

 the common Buff- backed Egret of India and Java ; and, therefore, can 

 only regard them as of one species. 



Nycticorax griseus, (L.) Adult and young (the latter remarkable 

 for the strong rufous tinge on its great alars and caudals) ; from Abyssinia. 

 *Fulica cristata, L. Two specimens. Ditto. 

 Gallinula chloropus, (L.) Ditto. 



Thalasseus bengalensis, (Lesson) : Sterna media (?), Horsfield ; St. 

 affinis, Buppell; St. Torresii, Gould; Sterna, Jerdon's Catal. No. 402). 

 A species widely diffused over the Indian Ocean, from the shores of India 

 ( and Africa to those of Papua and Australia. Specimen from the Red 

 Sea ; exactly resembling another from the Bay of Bengal : while a third, 

 from Singapore, in winter dress (like that originally described by M. 

 Lesson), exhibits the greater development of black upon the primaries 

 noticed by Dr. Pucheran in Rev. Zool. &c. 1850, p. 544. # 



Sterna hirundo, L. From the Bed Sea. Identical with specimens 

 from Europe and S. India. 



*Plectropterus gambensis, (Latham). Abyssinia. 

 *Dendrocygna viduata apud Eiippell. Young, from Abyssinia. This 

 can hardly be the same species as D. viduata, (L., vera,), from S. Ame- 



niceps, Scopus, and Anastomus are all African forms, the last having also a 

 peculiar Indian species. (The African species heretofore referred to Anasto- 

 mus — A. laminigerus, Tern., — is the type of Hiator, Reichenbach.) 



* There can be little doubt also of the identity of St. velox, Ruppell, with Th. 

 cristatus, (Stephens, nee Swainson, v. St. pelicanoides, King) ; from the Indian 

 Ocean, China, and N. Australia. We have a specimen from the Maldives, and 

 another from the Tenasserim coast. 



