58 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



expedition did not meet with this bird in the interior of Ethiopia, 

 an experience in keeping with that of Erlanger, Neumann, etc. The 

 only entries dealing with this species that I find in Mearns' notes are 

 the following : Leldimdu River, August 4-8, 18 seen ; Meru, August 

 9, 6 birds noted; Tharaka district, August 13, 2 seen; Tana River, 

 August 14-23, 6; Athi River, August 31 and September 1, 9 birds 

 observed. 



AQUILA VERREAUXI Lesson 



Aquila verreauxi Lesson, Cent. Zool., p. 105, pi. 38, 1930: In the interior of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



Unfortunately no specimens of this bird were collected but Mearns 

 entered the following observations in his field notes under the present 

 species : Box Canyon, south end Lake Rudolf, July 9, 1 bird ; Indunu- 

 mara Mountains, July 14-18, 4 birds ; Endoto Mountains, July 19-20, 

 2 seen. If the birds were really verreauxi^ these observations con- 

 stitute the first records for the species in Kenya Colony. I include 

 them here, not so much for their own sake (as the identification is 

 only a sight one) but in the hope that they may incite collectors in 

 Kenya to watch for this eagle. 



AQUILA RAPAX RAPTOR Brehm 



Aquila raptor A. E. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855 ,p. 13: Blue and White Nile. 



Specimens collected: 



Female, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, November 29, 1911. 

 Male, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, November 28, 1911. * 



Male, (?) Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 5, 1911. 

 Female, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 4, 1911. 

 Male, (?) Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 10, 1911. 

 Male and female, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, January 30, 1912. 

 Male, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 28, 1911. 

 Female immature, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 11, 1912. 

 Female, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 11, 1912. 

 Male nestling, Hokaki, Ethiopia, January 15, 1912. 

 Female, Arussi Plateau (9,200 feet), Ethiopia, February 25, 1912. 

 One unsexed (foot only), Arussi Plateau (9,200 feet), Ethiopia, 

 February 24, 1912. 



Female (foot only), Loku, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 5, 1912. 

 Female (foot only), near Loku, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 6, 1912. 



These specimens together with the combined series in the United 

 States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 illustrate all ages and plumages of this eagle. 



The youngest specimen, a male nestling (U.S.M.N. 243618) taken 

 at Hokaki, Ethiopia, on January 15, 1912, has the eye region and 



