Dr. J. Kirk on the Birds of the Zambesi Region. 307 



c. Chibisa. " Iris brownish red ; legs, toes, and cere light 

 red; edge of eyelids light red." 



d. Chibisa. 



17- PoLYBORoiDES TYPicus, Smith. 



Two examples. " Iris very dark ; cere and space round the 

 eye, up to bill, light yellow ; legs and toes yellow ; claws black." 



18. Athene wooDroRDi, Smith. 



One example. " Iris light brown." Chibisa. 



19. Scops leucotis (Temm.). 

 Strix leucotis, Temm. PI. Col. 16. 



One example. " Iris golden." Magomero. 



20. Bubo lacteus (Temm.). 

 Two examples : — 



a. Magomero. 



b, Chibisa. " Iris dark russet brown." 



21. Bubo maculosus (Vieill.). 



Strix maculosa, Vieill. N. Diet. H. N. vii. p. 44. 

 Two examples. " Cere dull black ; iris orange." 



22. Strix flammea (Linn.). 



One example. Quilimane. " Iris very dark blue." 



XXV. — On the Birds of the Zambesi Region of Eastern Tropical 

 Africa. By John Kirk, M.D., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. 



The following is an enumeration of birds collected by myself in 

 Eastern Tropical Africa, along the course of the Zambesi, its 

 tributary the Shire, and on the western shore of Lake Nyassa. 

 To these a few have been added from the collection of the late 

 Dr. Dickinson, of the Central-African Mission, — the birds of 

 prey, of which that collection chiefly consists, having been 

 already described by Dr. P. L. Sclater, from whom I have 

 received valuable assistance in the determination of species, and 

 as regards access to the library under his care. Mr. G. R. 

 Gray, of the British Museum, has examined and named the few 

 new species obtained. Ornithology having formed no especial 

 study of mine, collections were made only where facilities offered 

 and other duties did not interfere. This list, therefore, includes 



