684 SOME NEW BIRDS FROM MADAGASCAR— RICHMOND. vol. xix. 



All of these specimens are in tlie immature plumage, with barred 

 under parts, but there is much individual variation shown among them. 

 Two, a male and female, are apparently younger than the others, 

 and have a fulvous tinge on the light markings of the under parts, inner 

 webs of tail feathers, and under side of wings; the throat pale buft", 

 with longitudinal spots and streaks of dark brown, instead of white 

 with line gray transverse bars. Tlie bars on the under i)arts of these 

 younger birds are also broader, browner, and with wider interspaces 

 than in the others ; the upper parts are browner, without any slate color 

 on the head. There is also a superciliary stripe of mixed buff and 

 brown. 



33. BUTEO BRACHYPTERUS, Hartlaub. 



B\_uteo'] hracliji pier IIS "v. I'elz.," IIartlauh, FauuaMadap;., 1861, p. 15. (Madagascar.) 



Four specimens. Female adult, 80 miles northwest of Mahaiuu'o, 

 April 5. "Length, 19J inches. Crop contained a rat." Male adult, 

 Namorona, east coast, June 3. Female adult, Kiver Faraouy, east 

 coast, June 5. Male adult, same locality, June C. 



34. FALCO MINOR, Bonaparte. 

 FaJco minor, Boxapartk, Kev. et Mag. Zool., 1850, p. 484. (Cape of Good Hope.) 



Two specimens. Male adult, Ambodivongo, Ankay, March 30. 

 Female adult, Marohita, near Manaujara, east coast, June 27. "Bill 

 horny black at tip; base of lower mandible greenisli yellow; cere 

 greenish yellow; feet lemon yellow, claws black; irides dark brown; 

 lengtli, 19:^ inches." 



Ca])tain Shelley does not include Madagascar in the range of this 

 species, although it has been recorded from there on more than one 

 occasion. 



35 FALCO NEWTONI (Gurney). 



Tinniinculus neirtoni, Girxey, Ibis, 1803, p. 34. (iladagascar.) 

 Falco iiewtoni, Sciilegkl, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond., lS6(i, p. 420. 



Five specimens. Male adult, Antananarivo, Febiuary 8 (rufous 

 phase). Female adult, Andrangolsaka, Imerina, March 25. " Length, 

 lU inches." Female adult, same locality, March 20. . Female imma- 

 ture, Ambodivongo, Ankay Valley, March 30. "Length, 11^ inches." 

 Female adult, 60 miles northwest of Mahanoro, A])ril 12 (rufous phase). 

 No two of these specimens are exactly alike, but one pair are in the 

 rufous and the others in the light phase. Of the latter, two appear to 

 be fully adult, while the third is an immature bird, with broad black 

 bars on the back, bully tips on the primaries, secondaries, greater wing- 

 coverts, and primary coverts; upper tail-coverts barred with rufous 

 and black; under parts, nape, and sides of head tinged with light ful- 

 vous. It is beginning to molt, and two or three gray and black 

 feathers appear on the upper tail-coverts; on the back a few dark 

 rufous feathers, with small black shaft spots, are replacing the broad- 



