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Yebo, June 20, 2 birds; Karsa Barecha, June 21, 4 birds; Malata, 

 June 22, 4; Chaffa villages, June 23-24, 3 seen; Hor, June 26-30, 2 

 noted ; plains at base and south of Endoto Mountains, July 19-24, 4 

 birds ; Er-re-re, July 25, 2 ; Le-se-dun, July 26, 4 ; Malele and district 

 immediately to the south, July 27-28, 5 seen; Northern Guaso Nyiro 

 Kiver, July 31, 4 birds; Lekiundu River, August 4-8, 8 seen; Meru, 

 August 9, 2 birds; Tharaka district, August 13, 4; Tana Eiver, Au- 

 gust 14, 2 noted. 



At Bodessa, Mearns wrote that these goshawks follow the guinea 

 fowl for food, " * * * and are very bold, once returning to the 

 chase immediately after I had shot and wounded a guinea hen, dis- 

 regarding my presence." 



The breeding season in northern Somaliland, according to Er- 

 langer ^^ is in January. 



MELIERAX METABATES METABATES (Henglin) 



Melierax metahates Heuglin, Ibis, 1861, p. 78 : White Nile between 6° and 

 7° N. latitude. 



Specimens collected: 



Male adult, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 12, 1912. 



Male adult, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 26, 1912. 



Seven male adults, Gato River, near Gardula, 4,000 feet (1,200' 

 meters), Ethiopia, April 7-28, 1912. 



Male immature, Gato River, near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 24, 

 1912. 



Male nestling, Gato River, near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 21, 1912. 



Two female adults, Gato River, near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 14 

 and 24, 1912. 



Male adult, Hoorsah, Ethiopia, no date. 



The colors of the soft parts were recorded by Mearns for several 

 of these specimens and his notes indicate considerable variation. 

 Thus, the iris was pale gray in a nestling, pale yellow flecked with 

 brown in an immature male, brown in one and hazel in another 

 adult male, and hazel brown in an adult female. The bill in an im- 

 mature male was plumbeous black with the tomia and cere olive, 

 in adult males and females it was black or bluish black with the 

 cere and base of the mandible orange. Immature birds have the 

 feet yellow and the claws black; adults have orange feet and black 

 claws. According to Gyldenstolpe °° adults have the legs and cere 

 coral red, the lower mandible orange red. 



One of the males collected near Gardula had just killed a francolin 

 and was feeding on it. 



sojourn, f. Ornlth., 1904, p. 165. 



wKungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Ilandlgr., 1924, p. 285. 



