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31. Dissodectes ardosiacus (Bonn, et Vieill.). 

 <J S Gambaga, 12. 10. 18'J8, 2<J. l^. 1898. " Iris brown, cere and legs yellow." 

 These two spei'iinens, said to be a ?!iiilc and & female, are alike in size, but 

 the ? has the inner webs of the rectrices more distinctly barred on the underside. 



STRIGES. 



32. Huhua poensis (Tras.). 

 One young bird, (? ?), Cape Coast, 1. 5. 1899. 



33. Bubo cinerascens Gn^r. 

 ((J ?) Gambaga, 14. 1. 1899. "Iris orange." 



34. Pisorhina capensis subsj). ? ? 



A male, shot on the Volta River 10. 2. 1899, with a light yellow iris, differs 

 from a good series of skins of P. capt'usis from Southern Africa in being generally 

 more rufous, in having the wing about 3 or o mm. shorter, the under wing-coverts 

 mucb less spotted and barred, the black shaft-stripes to the feathers of the 

 underside narrower. I suppose our bird will eventually prove to belong to an 

 undescribed form of P. capensis, if it cannot be called P. senegalensis (Swains.), 

 with which P. pt/gmaea (C L. Brehm) may be synonymous. P. ugamlae 0. Neum. 

 should also be compared. With only a single skin, and without sufficient material 

 from other parts of Africa for comparison, I cannot at present venture to settle the 

 question of our Gambaga Scops-owl. 



35. Glaucidium perlatum (Vieill.). 

 ? Gambaga, 20. 7. Ih98. " Iris- yellow." 



PSITTACI. 

 36. Palaeoruis docilis Vieill. 

 <J Gambaga, 25. 9. 1898. " Iris orange." 



37. Poiocephalus vei'steri (Finsch.). 

 i Gambaga, 9. lu. 1898. " Iris yellow." 



COHACIIDAE. 

 3s. Coracias cyanog'aster Cuv. 

 6 $ Gambaga, November and January 1898. " Iris hazel." 



39. Coracias naevius Daud. 



6 ¥ Gambaga, .liuniary and October 1898. " Iris hazel." 



l\\e female has the wings a little shorter tiian the male. Both these skins are 

 much smaller than our skins from Eiithiaea and Somaliland. The J from Gambaga 

 has the wing iSo, the female 17.") mm. 



