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the female, on the other hand, has the throat and fore -neck 

 grey-coloured without any brownish wash. Besides, she has a 

 great number of white feathers in the lores, which in the male 

 are uniform black. Neither of the specimens, however, has the 

 middle of the throat whitish but agrees entirely in the coloration 

 of the throat with the picture of this species given by Pucheran, 

 which he names Glareola geoffroyi (Mag. de Zool., Paris, 1845, 

 pi. 57). 



When compared With the specimens in the Berlin Museum, 

 collected by Fischer on the coast in Manibrui in British East- 

 Africa it appeared that my specimen agreed fairly well with these, 

 both as regards measurement and colour. The former had a 

 wing-measurement of 190—200 mm for cTcf and 182—192 for 99i 

 and even the length of the tarsi was the same as that of the 

 Kendu-birds. 



V. Someren does not include the species in his "Check 

 list of the birds of East-Africa and Uganda", 

 1917, although it has long ago been known from East-Africa, but 

 Z e d 1 i tz (Journ. f. Orn., 1914, p. 622), gives the bird from the 

 coast of south Somali. 



Wing, cf 180 mm, 9 190 mm, tarsus, cT 30 mm, 9 26 mm. 



Irides dark brown; bill black with red flanges; legs black. 



Bhinoptilus chalcopterus ohscurus Neum. — 

 Orn. Monatsber. 1911, p. 11. 

 1 c5 ad, 17. 4. Kiambu. 

 In the neighbourhood of Nairobi, at Kiambu, this Courser 

 occurred rather sparingly. It frequented the acacia-plains. 



Neumann (op. cit.) distinguishes Eh. ch. chalcopterus 

 from Hh. ch. obscurus, occurring south of the equator to the 

 Cape, which has a brown olive-grey upper surface. The former 

 is said to have a lighter and more yellowish upper surface and 

 occurs only in Upper-Guinea (Senegal). My specimen is almost 

 uniform brown above. 



Wing 177 mm, tarsus 78 mm. 



Irides dark-brown (the edge of the eye-lids red); bill black 

 with red flanges; legs coral-red. 



Charadrius asiaticus asiaticus Pall. — Rchw. I. p. 167. 



Eupodoa asiatica (Pall.). — Grant: Ibis 1916, p. 57. — Ochtodroviics asiaticus 

 ■ (Pall.). - Gurney: Ibis 1909, p. 531. 



Ondhuedhuwa . . . ki-kavirondo. 

 1 (5 and 1 Q 21. 8., Kendu. 



These two specimens, which were found at Kendu, were 

 both in winter dress. They were shot out of a flock of six which 

 were running about the open plains where the grass was short 

 and withered. Now and again they "squatted" on the ground 

 and then they offered a puzzling resemblance to the surroundings. — 



