BIRDS 
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The Common Porcupine {Hystrix cristata). 
Found in Guban, Ogaden, and the Boorgha country. 
Length 30 inches. Colour dark-brown ; white band round neck ; most of 
the quills are ringed with black and white. 
The Somali Hare {Lepus somalensis). 
Collected at Lehello. 
Fawn colour ; very long ears ; belly white ; the upper incisors have the 
grooves entirely filled with cbment level with the surface. 
The Berbera Hare {Lepus herberanus). 
Found in Guban. 
Colour fawn ; belly white ; long ears. 
BIRDS. 
Thanks to the untiring energy of that great sportsman-naturalist, Mr. 
E. Lort Phillips, the birds of Somaliland are pretty well known. In the 
following list the birds which I have not personally examined in the flesh 
or skin are partly described from Layard’s ^ Birds of South Africa,’ ^ The 
Ibis,’ ‘The Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London,’ ‘The Royal 
Natural History’ (Lydekker), and Blandford’s ‘Zoology of Abyssinia.’ 
PASSERES (Perching Birds). 
The Thick-billed Raven {Corvus crassirostris). 
Sheik Husein. 
Size large ; iris very dark-brown ; bill and legs black. 
The Short-tailed Raven (Bhinocorax affinis). 
Iris dark-brown ; bill and legs black ; tail short ; long secondary quills ; 
croak much deeper than that of most crows. 
Miss Edith Cole’s Crow {Gowne editlm). 
Deragodeley, Leferuke, Ogaden. 
Size small ; colour brown ; iris brown. 
Wattled Starling" (Dilophus carnuculatus.) 
Hargaisa. 
Colour ash ; shoulders and upper part of wings white, rest of wing and tail 
green-black ; iris light-brown. Female has not a naked head ; length 
8 inches. 
Blythe’s Grakle {Amydrus hlythii). 
Sheik Mohamed. 
Whole head and neck ash-gray ; male 7 inches ; female 6*37 inches ; iris 
bright red ; above and below slight green gloss ; bill comparatively short. 
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