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ARDEIDAE. 



22. Butorides atricapilla (Afzel.). 



(? Upper Volta River, 10. 2. 1899. " Iris and legs yellow. Upper jaw black, 

 lower part yellowish." 



23. Ardetta payesi Verr. 



Moshi, 20 miles from Wagadugu, 4. 7. l!S38: "Iris orange." 

 (Cf. Neumann in Jourii. f. Orn. 1H98, pp. 283, 284, Hartert in appendix to 

 Ansorge's "Under the African Sim.") 



ACCIPITRES. 

 24. Circus macrurus (Gm.). 

 ? Gambaga, 7. 12. 1898. " Iris yellow." 



2;). Astur sphenurus (Riipp.). 



(f c? ? art. Gambaga, 24. VZ. Isii8, 12. 4. 1.S98. " Iris orange." 

 This species is closely allied to A. badiuH, from which the adnlt bird can easily 

 be (bstingiiished, although it may hardly be more than a subspecies of it. 



2(i. Accipiter ovampensis Gurney. 



S ad. Gambaga, December 1898. "Iris orange." This rare hawk, which 

 Dr. Sharpe kindly compared with a specimen in the British Museum, is figured and 

 described in the Ibis 18T5, p. 367, PI. VI. It is hitherto only known to occur from 

 S.W. Africa to Nyassa-land and the Zambesi, and the occurrence in the Gold Coast 

 Hinterland is a most unexpected one. Our bird, being a ntale, is considerably 

 smaller than the ? ad. type. If measures as follows: Wing 215, tail 150, 

 metatarsus 44 mm. 



27. Eutolmaetus spilogaster (Bp.). 



? Gambaga, 24. lU. 1898. " Ins orange." 



28. Circaetus ciuereus Vieill. 

 ? Gambaga, 14. 1. 1899. 



29. Nauclerus riocouri (Vieill.). 

 (f Gambaga, 22. 1. 1899. " Iris pink." The claws are whitish yellow. 



30. Cerchneis alopex Heugl. 



f Gambaga, 4. 12. 1898. "Iris brown." 



This specimen is somewhat paler and less reddish than specimens from Shoa 

 and Bdgosland. The occurrence so far west as Gambaga is in the highest degree 

 interesting. (Cf. Rothschild in Bull. B. 0. Club, v. VIII. p. 57 (June 1899). 



