— 66 :— 



In the collection of skins lying before me there are 3 different 

 dresses. 



1. Young bird with the whole of the head (forehead, crown 

 and occipit) and neck covered with woolly dark-brown down. 

 Throat and sides of the head sparsely beset with black 

 hairs. The fore-neck as well as the inside of the thigh 

 dark-brown. 



2. Young bird with the whole of the head (forehead, crown 

 and occipit) covered with dark-brown, woolly down. The 

 neck covered with light-brown down. Throat and sides of 

 the head thickly overgrown with black hairs and down. The 

 fore- neck light brownish grey. Inside of thigh covered 

 with brown-grey down. Wing-coverts dark-brown, all with 

 light tips. 



3. Older birds with naked head. The neck covered with light 

 brownish grey, woolly down. The fore-neck distinctly white 

 (not pale brown or brownish white). The insides of the 

 thighs set with dark brown and white down. 



Irides brown; bill yellowish grey-brownish grey; legs light 

 bluish green. 



Sagittarius serpentarius (Miller). — Rchw. I. p. 258. 



The secretary-bird is very rare in the Elgon regions. I 

 only saw it twice in the plain below the eastern slopes of Elgon 

 and on one of the occasions the bird was shot but it fell into 

 the tall grass, and in spite of a careful search 1 did not succeed 

 in finding it. 



Astur tachiro nyansae Neum. — Orn. Monatsber. 1902, p. 138. 



1 (5 18. 4. Eiambu. 



This hawk, which was found in the interior of the dense 

 forests, was shot in the neighborhood of Nairobi. 

 Wing, tarsus, tail, 



207 mm. 65 mm. 180 mm. 



Irides yellowish red; legs citron yellow. The cere yello- 

 wish green. The specimen is an old male in full dress with the 

 flanks bright rusty-red, the chin almost yellowish-white. 



