MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 153 



Family PlKBiiicopteridse. 



48. Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas. 



Zoographia Rosso- Asiatica, II. (1811), p. 207. Caspian. 



9 , 9 im., and 15 specimens unsexed. Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



49. Phoeniconaias minor (Geoff.}. 



Phcenicopterus minor Geoffrey, Bulletin des Sciences de la Socie"te" 

 Philomathique de Paris, I. (1798), pp. 97, 98. 



21 specimens, unsexed. Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



This species and the preceding were associated together in large 

 numbers at Lake Elmenteita. 



Family Aiiatidse. 



50. Plectropterus gambensis (Linn.}. 



Anas gambensis Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, i2th ed. (1766), 

 p. 195. Gambia, West Africa. 



?, ?, d\ Nov., Athi River. 



None of this series is in fully adult plumage, though the specimen 

 marked cT closely approximates it. The youngest of the series has 

 the sides of the face, the throat, fore-neck, breast, sides, and abdo- 

 men buff or tawny, the abdominal feathers being obscurely barred 

 with dusky. 



51. Chenalopex segyptiacus (Linn.). 



Anas cegyptiacus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, i2th ed. (1766), 

 p. 197. Egypt. 



9,9,9, Jan., Naivasha. 



52. Nettion capense (Gm.). 



Anas capense Gmelin, Systema Naturae, 1788, p. 527. Cape Good 

 Hope. 



i specimen, from Lake Elmenteita. 



Family Phalacrocoracidse. 



53. Phalacrocorax africanus (Gm.). 



Pelecanus africanus Gmelin, Systema Naturae, 1788, p. 577. 

 9,9, Oct., Nairobi. 



See NEUMANN, Journal filr Ornithologie, 1898, pp. 251, 252, 

 variation in color of under parts. 



