MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 157 



which, according to Sharpe* is "regularly banded across with dull 

 fulvous." On the other hand, neither specimen can be called 

 "nigricanti-brunneum," which is set down as the ground color of the 

 upper parts of nigricantius in the original description above cited. 

 They do agree with nigricantius in the triangular spotting of the back, 

 and in the white superciliary and loral areas. The chocolate-brown 

 specimen is but sparsely spotted above, and the tips of the breast 

 feathers are near chestnut. The gray-brown specimen has the white 

 spots on the back more numerous and larger, showing a tendency 

 towards bars, and the tips of the breast feathers are buff. 



See NEUMANN, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1899, pp. 55, 56, va- 

 riation, 5. suahelicum and sansibaricum = nigricantius. 



70. Glaucidium perlatum (Vieill.}. 



Strix perlatum Vieillot, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Nat- 

 ufelle, VII. (1817), p. 26. Senegal. 



9 , Apr., Voi. 



d\ Oct., Tana River. 



The male is the larger of the two, wing 107 mm., against wing 

 103 mm., both being in good feather, and has the entire crown and 

 nape thickly spotted. The female has very few spots on the head. 



See NEUMANN, Journal filr Ornithologie, 1899, pp. 57, 58, age va- 

 riation, G. kilimense G. perlatum. 



Family Alucoiiidse. 



71. Aluco capensis (A. 5m.). 



Strix capensis A. Smith, South African Quarterly Journal, 1834, 

 p. 317. South Africa. 

 9 , March, Molo. 



Family Psittacidse. 



72. Poicephalus rufiventris (Rupp.). 



Pionus rufiventris Rtippell, Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel 

 Nord-Ost-Afrika's, 1845, P- 8 3- Shoa, Abyssinia. 



d\ 9, Apr., Voi. 



i specimen without data. 



*Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., II., pp. 267, 268. 



