48 Aves 
III. AYES. 
Order CORACIIFORMES. 
Sub-order Podargi. 
Podargus inexpectatus, described ; Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, 
pp. 585 & 586. 
Sub-order Coracia:. 
Coraciidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas ii, pp. 216-232. 
Coracias garrulus semenoivi , n. subsp., Transcaspia ; Loudon & Tschusi, 
Ornith. Jahrb. xiii, pp. 148-150: C. loquax — C. garrula ; Sharpe, 
Ibis 1902, pp. 613 & 614. 
Eurystomus rufobuccalis is probably E. afer , freshly moulted ; id. t. c. 
pp. 614 & 615. 
Sub-order Halcyones. 
Alcedinidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Yog. Afrikas ii, pp. 269-301. 
Alcedo capensis Linn, is referable to the Javan Pelargopsis ; Stone, P. Ac. 
Philad. 1902, p. 674. 
Alcedo ispida , note on ; Tristram, Zoologist 1902, p. 68 : near Aberdeen ; 
Wilson, t. c. p. 27. 
Corythornis thomensis , n. sp., S. Thomas Is.; Salvadori, Ibis 1902, p. 568, 
pi. xiii. 
Ceyx rufidorsa and allies, notes on ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, pp. 430-432 : 
C. meeki, figured ; Rothschild & Hartert, t. c. pi. xi, fig. 1. 
Halcyon nusce , n. sp., New Hanover and other small islands in the 
Bismarck Archipelago ; Heinroth, J. Ornith. 1902, p. 437, taf. viii, 
fig. 2 : H. mathice , S. Mathias Is.; id. t. c. p. 438, taf. viii, fig. 1 : H. 
smyrnensis , note on ; Finn, Zoologist 1902, p. 149. 
Sub-order Bucerotes. 
Bucerotidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Yog. Afrikas ii, pp. 233-268. 
Bucorax cafer , note on ; Sclater, Zoologist 1902, pp. 49-52, cum fig. 
Rhytidoceros narcondami , note on ; Cory, J. Bombay Soc. xiv, p. 372, cum 
tab. 
Sub-order Upupje. 
Upupidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Yog. Afrikas ii, pp. 332-349. 
Upupa epops loudoni , n. subsp., Transcaspian ; Tschusi, Ornith. Jahrb. 
xiii, pp. 70 & 71 : U. epops , ? subsp. n., S. Arabia ; Lorenz & Hell- 
mayr, Denk. Ak. Wien lxxi, p. 115. 
Irrisor , further notes on the genus ; Grant, Ibis 1902, pp. 432-435 : I. 
damarensis (fig. 1), and I. somaliensis (fig. 2), figured ; id. t. c. pi. x : 
I. erythrorhynchos guineensis , n. subsp., Portuguese Guinea to the 
Niger ; Reichenow, Ornith. Monber. x, pp. 78 & 79. 
Sub-order Meropes. 
Meropidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas ii, pp. 301-332. 
Dicrocercus clirysolcemus , J. & S., distinct from D. furcatus (Stanl.) ; 
Neumann, J. Ornith. 1902, p. 133. 
MeliUophagus oreobates , figured; Jackson, Ibis 1902, p. 620, pi. xvi, fig. 1. 
