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



in Reichenow's Vogel Afrikas, I., p. 643. But in a series of C. spar- 

 verius there are always occasional specimens that differ from the 

 majority in exactly the same points shown by this skin. Such 

 oddities can be set down only to individual variation, and it is proba- 

 ble that this bird was only an unusually small and dark example of 

 its species. 



Family Strigidae. 



66. Asio nisuella (Daud.). 



Strix nisuella Daudin, Traite" e'le'mentaire et complet d'Ornitholo- 

 gie, .1800, p. 187. 



9 , Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



67. Bubo maculosus (Vie-ill.}. 



Strix maculosus Vieillot, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Nat- 

 urelle, 1817, p. 44. 



9 , Nov., Nairobi. 



See NEUMANN, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1899, p. 55, varia- 

 tion; OBERHOLSER, Proceedings National Museum] Washington, 1905, 

 p. 856, 857, subspecies. 



68. Bubo lacteus (Temm.). 



Strix lactea Temminck, Planches colorees d'Oiseaux, II. (1820) 

 pi. 4. Senegal. 



$ , Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



?, ?, Sept., Mt. Kenya. 



The two latter specimens are darker than that from Elmenteita 

 which appears considerably faded, as if the bird had been much in 

 sunshine. 



69. Strix woodfordi nigricantius (Sharpe). 



Syrnium nigricantius Sharpe, Bulletin British Ornithologist's 

 Club, No. XLV. (1897), p. xlvii., Mpapwa, Ugogo, East Africa. 



?, $ , Jan., Kijabe. 



There appears to be a little uncertainty as to the correct name for 

 this form. These two specimens are in different phases of plumage, 

 one having a chocolate-brown tone while the other is gray-brown, 

 but they agree in lacking distinct bars on the back, the white appear- 

 ing in triangular flecks, and therein differ from typical woodfordi 



