MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 151 



35. Hagedashia hagedash (Lath.). 



Tantalus hagedash Latham, Index ornithologicus, II. (1790), 

 p. 709. Cape Good Hope. 



i specimen without data. 



See ERLANGER, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, p. 99, variation. 



Family Plataleid.se. 



36. Platalea alba Scopoli. 



Deliciae Florae et Faunas Insubricae, II. (1786), p. 92. 

 cf, Nov., Athi River. 



Family Cicoiiiicla?. 



37. Ciconia ciconia (Linn.). 



Ardea ciconia Linnaeus, Sy sterna Naturae, loth ed. (1758), p. 142. 

 Sweden. 



i specimen without data. 



38. Anastomus lamelligerus Temminck. 

 Planches coloriees d'Oiseaux, 1823, p. 236. 

 cT, Nov., Athi River. 



39. Leptoptilos crumeniferus (Less.). 



Ciconia crumeniferus Lesson, Traite d'ornithologie, 1831, p. 585. 

 Senegal. 



9 im., March, Gilgil. 



The evidence of immaturity in this specimen comes from its lack 

 of white edgings to secondaries and greater coverts and from the 

 presence of woolly down on its occiput. It is fully grown. 



Family Scopidse. 



40. Scopus umbretta Gmelin. 



Systema Naturae, 1788, p. 618. 

 d\ 9 , Oct., Nairobi. 



