BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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eroon bird is very much lighter, more bluish gray, less blackish on 

 the upper parts, especially the head, than the Abyssinian example. 

 The former has the margins of the feathers of the upper parts rich 

 cinnamon rufous, while the latter has these margins pale tawny buff. 

 The under wing-coverts are much darker in the former than in the 

 latter and the sides of the lower part of the neck are much deeper 

 rufous in the western individual. In size the two compare as follows : 



Besides these two specimens I have examined seven adult birds 

 from Senegal, (G. F. Simmons collection), three from Cameroon 

 (J. A. Keis collection), and two from South Africa (Rivoli [Mas- 

 sena] collection). The Senegal birds have blacker bills than the 

 others; the difference between them and the dusky-yellow-billed 

 Cameroon specimens is very striking. Males have the streaks on the 

 underparts darker, broader, and heavier than the females, and the 

 ground color of the ventral surface is whiter in the males, more 

 tawny yellowish in the females. 



Family SCOPIDAE 



SCOPUS UMBRETTA BANNERMANI C. Grant 



Scopus utniretta hannermani C. Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., vol. 35, p. 27, 

 1914: Mount Leganisho, Kenya Colony. 



Specimens collected: 



Two female adults, Dulutcha, Ethiopia, January 24, 1912. 



Male adult, Sirre, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 



Male and female adults, Gato River, near Gardula, 4,000 feet, 

 Ethiopia, April 1, 1912. 



Male and female adults, Gato River, near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 April 16, 1912. 



Male adult, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, August 7, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris hazel; bill, legs, feet, and claws black. 



The birds taken April 1, 1912 at Gato River were a mated pair 

 according to Mearns' notes. 



The typical, small, western form of the hammerkop ranges from 

 Senegal to Nigeria. A bird from Cameroon in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology is of the eastern form hannermani^ but is 

 smaller than birds from Kenya Colony and east Africa generally. 



