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4. G. t. graueri. — Belgian Congo and Uganda ; smaller and darker 

 than typicus^ wing (female) 445-450; more heavily barred than any 

 of the first three forms, the black bars broader than the white ones. 



Hartert ^^ definitely relegates graueri to the synonymy of typicus^ 

 and while he does not actually mention or in any way refer to kempi, 

 he says that he can only distinguish the Madagascan radiatus (which 

 he considers conspecific with typicus), and two African forms, typi- 

 cus and pectoralis. However, I have seen a female from Gbanga, 

 Liberia (G. M. Allen coll.) now in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology which agrees with the description of kempL It has a wing 

 length of 398 millimeters. On the other hand, a female pectoralis 

 from Cameroon has wings 424 millimeters long. 



The Anole specimen was shot under rather peculiar circumstances. 

 To quote from Mearns' notes, " * * * a Poly'boroides was perched 

 on a mass of 'squeaky' weavers {Textor sp.) nests. The weavers 

 assembled in force and made a terrible fuss until I shot the Poly- 

 'boroides. Its joints work both ways which enables it to hang from 

 tree trunks and branches. Its stomach was empty. I shot another, 

 but it dropped in high weeds and ' quendoed ' (that is, got away)." 



Family FALCONIDAE 



FALCO BIARMICUS ABYSSINICUS Neumann 



Falco hiarmicns abyssinicus Neumann, Journ. f. Ornith., 1904, p. 369 : Turra- 

 bolonko, Kollu, Shoa. 



Specimens collected: 



Male immature, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 9, 1912. 



The above specimen is very light in color and has practically no 

 reddish tinge on the crown. Although labeled as a male, the speci- 

 men is probably a female as it is very large, almost as large as the 

 largest female of the series in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 Its measurements are as follows: Wing, 398; tail, 225; culmen, 24.5 

 millimeters, while the largest female presents the following figures : 

 Wing, 411; tail, 241; culmen, 24 millimeters (but tip shot off). It 

 should be noted that the largest measurements recorded for this hawk 

 are considerably under the present two. Neumann " gives 385 milli- 

 meters as the wing length of the largest female he examined ; Hart- 

 ert ^^ records none longer than 375 millimeters; and Swann ^*' gives 

 the wing length as follows : Male, 326-344 and female 362-375 milli- 



"Nov. Zool., vol. 34. 1928, p. 238. 



"Journ. f. Ornith. 1904, p. 369. 



"Vogel der ralaarktisclien Fauna, vol. 2, p. 1057. 



^« Synopsis of the Accipitrcs, ed. 2, 1922, p. 204. 



