252 l^OVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXII. llUr.. 



57. Falco chicquera nificollis Swains. 



1 cJ in the second j^ear's plumage, Zaria. 



This intermediate plumage appears not to have been described. The first 

 juvenile plumage has the underside ferrnginous biift', paler on the throat, jugulum 

 with brown shaft-stripes, abdomen with blackish brown straight or angular cross- 

 markings, nape rufous, crown chestnut-rnfous with black lines, feathers of back, 

 scapulars and wing-coverts with rufous margins. In the intermediate (second year's) 

 plumage the underside is cream-coloured, the crop region with brown shaft-lines, 

 breast and abdomen with narrow dark brown cross-bars ; back light grey with slate- 

 black cross-bars, crown dull rufous brown with black shaft-lines, najie reddish-buft". 

 The plumage of the adnlt bird, with its bright chestnut-red crown and nape, white 

 throat, vinous crop-region and the abdomen barred black and white, has been well 

 described by Sharpe, Reichenow, W. L. Sclater, and others. 



58. Falco naiimanni naumanni Fleisch. 

 Ad. and juv., province of Zaria, without dates. 



59, Falco tinnuuculus tinnunculus L. 

 cJ ad,, Zaria, 18. xi. 1912. The " typical "' tinnnncidiis winters in Nigeria. 



00. Falco tinnunculus carlo (Hart. & Neum.) 



5 ad., Zaria, 20.x. 1912. 



01. Falco ardosiaceus Vieill. 



6 ad. (in moult), province of Zaria ; uo date. 

 ¥ ad., Zaria, 21.x. 1912. 



<J ad., Niger, below Timbuktu, 



62. Asio leucotis leucotis (Temm.) 



3 ad., province of Zaria. 



These beautiful little Owls are the same in Senegambia, Hansaland, and 

 N.E. Africa. Erlanger called the N.E. -African form Asio leucotis nigrovertex 

 (Journ. f. Orn. 1904, p. 233), restricting the name leiwotis to the South African 

 birds ; this, however, cannot be accepted, because the name leucotis had been given 

 to Senegal birds ; therefore Mr. Ogilvie-Grant correctly named the southern form 

 Asio leucotis erlangei-i, though placing it in the genus Scops (= Otus Pennant), 

 {Ibis, 1906, p. 660), la which case the name must be altered to granti Koll. — It 

 seems to me, that this species is rather an Asio than an Otus {Scops auct.), but 

 I have not examined a specimen in the flesh, so as to be sure of this. 



03. Otus scops scops (L.) 

 1 ad,, Timbuktu. 



04, Otus capensis senegalensis Swains. 



Cf. Vljg. d pal. Fauna, ii, p, 982, 

 1 ad., province of Zaria. 



