148 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



19. Limnocorax niger (Gm.). 



Rallus niger Gmelin, Systema Naturae, 1788, p. 717. Cape Good 

 Hope. 



9 , Nov., Nairobi. 

 d\ d\ cT im., Jan., Naivasha. 



See ERLANGER, Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1905, p. 87, seasonal 

 variation. 



Family Colymbidae. 



20. Colymbus capensis (Salvad.). 



Podiceps capensis Salvadori, Annali Museo Civico de Storia Nat- 

 ural di Geneva, 2d. Series, I. (1884), p. 252. Shoa. 



9 , Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



This specimen is not in breeding dress, the chestnut and black 

 areas of the head and neck being largely obscured by gray. 



See NEUMANN, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1898, pp. 246, 247, 

 variation in amount of white on secondaries. 



Family Laridse. 



21. Qelochelidon nilotica (Hasselq.). 



Sterna nilotica Hasselquist, Reise nach Palastina, 1762, p. 325. 

 Egypt. 



9 , Jan., Naivasha. 



Family Recurvirostridse. 



22. Himantopus himantopus (Linn.}. 



Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, loth ed. 

 (1758), p. 151. Southern Europe. 



d\ Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



Family Scolopacidse. 



23. Gallinago media (Lath.}. 



Scolopax media Latham, General Synopsis of Birds, Supplement I. 

 (1787), p. 292. Kent, England. 



9 , Oct., Nairobi. 



