XXY. EREMOPTERYX, K aup, 1836*.
(Pyrrhulauda, Smith ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii.
p. 650, 1890 ; Shelley, B. Africa, iii. p. 75, 1902;
Reichenovv, Yög. Afrikas, iii. p. 364, 1904.)
1. australis {Smith), (p. 651.)
(Shelley, t. c. p. 76 ; Eeichenow, t. c. p. 365.)
S. Africa
(C. & E. Cape Colony
to E. Transvaal,
Great Namaqua-land,
Damara-land).
2. leucòtis (Stani.), (p. 657.)
(Shelley, t. c. p. 86 ; Eeichenow, t. c. p. 365.)
[madaraszi, Eeichenow, Orn. M.B. x. p. 78
(1902) ; id. Yog. Afrikas, iii. p. 365.]
N.E. & E. Africa
(Nubia to
E. White' Nile.
S. to Lake Nyasa).
3. smithi, Bp. (p. 658.)
(Eeichenow, t. c. p. 367.)
S. Africa
(C. Cape Colony
N. to Zambesia.
Damara-land).
4. lacteidorsalis, Shelley, Bull. B. (O. C. xiii.
p. 73 (1903) ; Eeichenow, Vög.
Afrikas, iii. p. 368 (1904).
N.E. Africa
(Kartoum),
5. m e la n o c e p h a la (Licht.).
(Shelley, t. c. p. 90.)
otoleuca (Temm,), (p. 657, pt.)
[Cf. Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 14 (1901);
Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii. p. 340 (1901);
Eeichenow, t. c. p. 307.]
N,E. Africa
W. of White Nile.
Senegambia
to Nigeria.
6. v e r tica lis (Smith), (p. 656.)
(Shelley, t. c. p. 83 : Eeichenow. t. c. p. 368.)
S, Africa
(N. Cape Colony
to E. Transvaal.
Great Namaqua-land,
Damara-land).
* According to Dr. Bianchi (Bull. Acad. Petersb. (5) xxiii. p. 205, 1905), Kaup’s
name has precedence over Pyrrhulauda of Smith.
7. signata, Oust., Bibl. haut Études, xxxi. Art. x. N. Somali-land to
p. 9(1886). Eudolf and
(Shelley, t. c. p. 85 ; Eeichenow, t. c. p. 368. Stephame Lakes.
Sharpe, Zool. Eec. 1901, Aves, p. 72.)
[harrisoni, Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 30
(1900) ; id. Ibis, 1901, p. 286, pi. vii.]
8. leucopareia, Fischer Sç Eeichenow. (p. 651,
note.)
(Shelley, t. c. p. 77 ; Eeichenow, t. c. p. 369.)
E. Africa
(Victoria Nyanza
to Lake Nyasa).
nigriceps, Gould.
(Shelley, t. c. p. 81, pi. 20.)
Cape Verde Is.
10. frontalis, Bp.
(Shelley, B. Africa, iii. p.-79 ; Eeichenow, t. c.
p. 370.)
[butleri, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 73
(1903).]
S. Arabia.
N.E. Africa
(Nubia to
Abyssinia).
11. melanauchen (Cab.), (p. 655.) N.E. Africa
(Eeichenow, t. c. p. 371.) (Abyssinian coasts.
S. Arabia.
N. Somali-land.
Sokotra Isl.
E. to Mekran,
Sind and
S. Punjab).
12. grisea (Scop.), (p. 652.) Indian Peninsula from
Sind, N. & W. Punjab,
to longitude of
Calcutta, and from the
foot of Himalayas to
Cape Comorin.