128 BULLETII^ 15 3, UNITED STATES jSTATIONAL MUSEUM. 



thighs. In his original description of keniensis Mearns gave as one 

 character the absence of transverse bars on the wings and tail, which 

 instead of being barred are minutely speckled and vermiculated. 

 This holds true for all but 2 of the 13 adults studied. In these two, 

 the vermiculations are arranged in fairly definite bars. 



A downy chick in the Museum of Comparative Zoology has the 

 head as in the juvenal Jioltermillleri described above (see p. 126) ; 

 the back is pale tawny with a wide dorsal, and, on each side, a lateral 

 band of dark sepia brown mixed with blackish, wings tawny, banded 

 anteriorly, and elsewhere spotted with sepia. The underparts are 

 pale sandy buff, slightly more buffy on the chest than elsewhere. 



The juvenal bird is like that of holtermulleri in every respect, but 

 very slightly darker on the back. The immature bird is molting 

 into adult plumage but has narrower shaft stripes on the feathers of 

 the upper parts. 



One of the adult females from Lekiundu River has an unusually 

 large amount of buffy white on the abdomen, flanks, and under tail 

 coverts; even more than in many specimens of tj^pical leiicoscepus^ 

 the lightest of all the races. However, it seems, from the geo- 

 graphical standpoint at least, better to consider this example par- 

 tially albinistic than to use it as an argument against the validity 

 of kenievisis, as it is also lighter than ordinary infiiscatus to which 

 it would then have to be referred. 



Mearns made no notes of the colors of the soft parts of this race, 

 but the following were made of other examples by W. R. Zappey 

 and Dr. Glover M. Allen. Chin, wattles, and eye ring red to scarlet ; 

 throat skin yellow to orange. 



Besides the specimens procured, this form was seen as follows: 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro River, July 31 to August 3, 30 birds; Le- 

 Idundu River, August 4—8, 1,000 birds; Mem swamp, August 9, 40 

 noticed. 



Family NUMIDIDAE 



NUMroA MITRATA REICHENOWI Grant 



Numida mitrata reichenoici Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1S94, p. 536: Makarungu, 

 Ukambani district, Kenya Colony. 



Specimens collected : 



Male, Tharaka district (2,000 feet (600 meters) ) Kenya Colony, 

 August 14, 1912. 



Male, Tana River at camp No. 4, Kenya Colony, August 18, 1912. 



Two males. Tana River at mouth of Thika River, Kenya Colony, 

 August 26, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris brown; wattles, forehead, and front of face red; 

 neck, sides of face, and orbital region blue; helmet reddish brown; 



