ART. 10 BIRDS FROM SOUTHWEST AFRICA FRIEDMANN" 6 



ciilmen from the cere (chord), 19; tarsus, 93 mm. The narrow bars 

 on the abdomen are darker than in several birds from Cape 

 Province. 



Family FALCONIDAE, Falcons, Caracaras 



FALCO TINNUNCULUS RUPICOLUS Daudin 



Falco rupicolus Daudin, Traite, vol. 2, p. 135, 1800 [Cape of Good Hope (ex 

 Levaillant)]. 



The South African kestrel was very numerous around Mount 

 Brukkaros, where it was usually seen sitting on the tops of the 

 koerkerboum trees, according to Mrs. Sordahl's notes. The birds 

 have a very shrill, screechy cry. Two males were obtained on Mount 

 Brukkaros, one on April 7, 1931, and one on September 30, 1931. 

 The former may really have been a female or else a youngish bird, 

 as it has the head and neck washed with tawnj^-rufous, and also the 

 rump and upper tail coverts, while in the other bird these areas are 

 grayish. Also the former has the rectrices more heavily barred and 

 the dark marks on the back much broader and more extensive than 

 in the latter. 



Roberts ^ has tentatively referred specimens from 60 miles north of 

 Okahandja to the Rhodesian subspecies rhodesi, but in this I think he 

 is mistaken. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE, Plovers, Turnstones, etc. 



HOPLOPTERUS ARMATUS (Burchell) 



Charadrius armatus Burchell, Travels, vol. 1, p. 501, 1822 (Klaarwater in 

 the Hay district of Cape Province). 



A male in good, fresh plumage was shot standing near a pond at 

 Berseba, February 25, 1930. 



Family COLUMBIDAE, Pigeons, Doves 



COLUMBA GUINEA PHAEONOTUS Gray 



Columta phaeonotus G. R. Gray, List of specimens of birds in the British 

 Museum, pt. 4, p. 32, 1856 [South Africa (founded on Columba trigonigera 

 Bonaparte, Conspectus generum avium, ed. 1, vol. 2, p. 50, 1850)]. 



A male was shot from a rock ledge on Mount Brukkaros, Novem- 

 ber 10, 1930. The bare circumocular sldn is recorded as bright red 

 in life. 



Roberts has recently ^ described a pale, bleached grayish race, 

 hradfleldi, from Waterberg, Southwest African Protectorate. The 

 present bird should be himdfleldi on geographic grounds, but it is 



2 Ann. Transvaal Mus., vol. 12, pt. 4, p. 304, 1928. 

 » Ann. Transvaal Mug., vol. 14, p. 239, 1931. 



