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certainly occurring in the saline plains that separate the latter 
from Abyssinia. Very common in the Somali country. 
“ I was told by a rather trustworthy man* a hunter, that south 
of Fazogloa, near Djebel Dul, there existed a little didactyle Os¬ 
trich , not higher than Otis arabs, but in figure and colour much 
like S. camelus” \Autruchon y Temm. ?-— Ed.] 
70. Otis heuglinii, Hartl., n. sp. (Plate XI.) 
$, adult. : Pileo et facie nigris, vitta angusta verticali ab an- 
gulo frontali ad nucham usque ducta alba; nigredine gulari in 
apicem excurrente; genis pure albis ; collo medio cinereo, pectus 
versus magis magisque rufescente, maculisque minutis obscuri- 
oribus transversim notato; colli infimi ptilosi antice elongata 
fasciaque fusca terminate; corpore supra dilute ochraeeo, nigri- 
cante irregulariter fasciolato et variegato; tectricibus alarum 
extimis nigris, ad basin et ad apicem late albis; dorso medio, 
uropygio, tectricibus caudse superioribus et cauda supra magis 
cinerascentibus, gracillime undulato-fasciolatis; fascia ante-api- 
cali caudse obscura, ipso apice albo, fascia altera vix conspicua; 
remigibus primariis tribus externis nigro-fuseis, reliquis irregu¬ 
lariter et late albo fasciatis ipsisque apicibus albis; secundariis 
nigro-fuscis, macula apicali cuneata lata obtusa alba notatis, ad 
basin pallidis; corpore subtus, subalaribus et axillis pure albis; 
rostro virescenti-nigro, apice pallidiore ; pedibus sordide et 
pallide flavidis; iride fusca. Long. tot. 2' 9" 6'"; tars. 5" 6"'; 
rostr. ab ang. oris 3" 5"', afr. 2" 11'"; al. 1' 6". 
In small flocks of three or four birds in the dense underwood 
near the wells of Thushha on the route between Zeita and 
Harar. Not very shy. 
[This beautiful Bustard seems to be quite new. It is totally 
different from the Sypheotides humilis of Blyth. Ed.] 
71. Otis arabs. 
In the Samher-country (coast of Abyssinia) and on the plains 
of Habab. 
72. (Edicnemus affinis. 
Coast of Abyssinia and Habab, Danakil-country south to 
Tadjura, 
