LIST 
OF 
A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 
MADE 
By JAMES DAUBENY, Esq. 
ON 
THE COASTS OF THE BED SEA IN 1851, 
By PHILIP LUTELY SCLATER. 
The collection of bird skins of which the following is the catalogue, 
was formed by Mr. James Daubeny, principally on the shores of the 
Red Sea. The greater number of the species are Abyssinian, and 
were collected apparently near Massowa, a village on the coast of 
that country, though some few are from Ayoun Mousa, or Moses* 
^ ells, not far from Suez ; one or two from Mocha, and others 
from Mokolla on the South coast of Arabia. They are con- 
sequently nearly all included in the very full list of North-East 
African birds given by M. Riippell in the latest and most com- 
plete of his works, the Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel Nord- 
st-AfrUcas. The Ornithology of this portion of Africa has in 
lact been pretty well worked out, and there remain probably but 
ncw s P e cies to be found on the west coast of the Red Sea; but 
^ lc eas ^ ern or Asiatic side, where the African Fauna passes into 
‘at of India, the Ornithology is nearly unexplored, and there are 
doubtless many discoveries still to be made. 
r. Strickland has assisted me in naming some of the following 
i aes, which I had some difficulty in determining. 
