XIII. 
ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNG ARICI. 
1915. 
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE 
DANAKIL-LAND. 
By Dr. J. v. Madarász. 
(Plate VII.) 
Mr. C. Katona (Kittenberger) after having been some years in 
German East-Africa, visited the interesting, and ornithologically almost 
unknown Danakil-Land in 1907 with the intention of collecting birds. The 
aim of his excursion was originally to penetrate the country to reach its 
western boundary as far as the range of the eastern mountains of Abessinia, 
but this project came to nothing by different difficulties putting obstacles 
in his way, and then he was obliged to remain on the coast, where he did 
not reach at most more than one hundred kilometers. Therefore the 
collecting was mostly restricted to the coast, hut he was able to collect 
interesting species inhabiting this Land. 
Katona’s observations upon the migration of the palearctic birds 
in Danakil-Land was given by him in the periodical «Aquila» 1907. 
The birds procured in Danakil-Land for the collection of the 
Hungarian National Museum is summed up in the following list, with 
addition of notes and descriptions of the new forms. 
Ordo: LARIFORMES. 
Eam. LARIDAE. 
Larus fuscus, L. 
Larus fuscus, Linné, Syst. Nat. p. 136 (1758); Reichw., Vög. Afr. I. p. 41 (1900— 
1901); Kittenb., Aquila, 1907. p. 78. 
c?. Assab, 14. VII. 1907. 
Larus affinis, Reinh. 
Larus affinis, Reinh., Vid. Medd. 1853. p. 78; Reichw., Vög. Afr. I. p. 43 (1900— 
1901). 
2 (?, 2 $, 1 juv. Assab, I— II. 1907. 
