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This single ad. has the following measurement figures: 

 wing, tarsus, culmen from cere, tail, 



435 mm. 86 mm. 25 mm. 235 mm. 



Irides are dirty-white, culmen the same colour as in adultus, 

 i. e. black with a bluish base and yellow cere, legs yellow. 

 The dress is very nearly in agreement with that described by 

 Reichenow. However, nearly all the wing coverts are furnish- 

 ed with rusty-brown tips. Reichenow says that the wing- 

 feathers of the young bird are the same colour and design as 

 those of the old bird, but in this specimen the secondaries are 

 dark-brown with wide, blackish transverse bands, whereas the 

 old bird has them pale lead- grey -(almost greyish white) with 

 narrow b.lack transverse bands. 



On the eastern slopes of Elgou the bird was common and 

 I frequently saw it sitting in the top of some withered tree for 

 several hours quite motionless. It frequents both the interior 

 and outskirts of the forest and the acacia steppe and I saw it 

 even on the highest summit of Elgon (14,000 feet). 



Buteo oreophilus Hart, and Neum. — Orn. Monatsber. 1914, p. 31. 

 1 Q ad. 8. 5. 2 days march from LondiaDi towards Eldoret. 



One evening when we encamped on the edge of the forest — 

 on our way towards Eldoret — at an altitude of 9,000 feet 

 above sea level I saw in the gloom on the middle branches of 

 a large tree a small buzzard. It remained still until I approached 

 to about 10 meters, when I shot it. It then proved to be an 

 old female of B. oreophilus. 



tot. length, wing, tarsus, bill from cere, tail, 



450 mm. 370 mm. 69 mm. 24 mm. 190 mm. 



The unfeathered portion of the tarsus 35 cm. long. Iris 

 light brown; bill greyish blue with yellow cere; feet yellow. 



The second primary is in this specimen 14 cm. long and 

 considerably shorter than the 6 th primary, which measures 25 mm. 



Helotarsus ecaudatus (Daud.). — Rchw. I. p. 598. 



Kibungu . . . ki-kamba. — Mweu . . . ki-suahili. 

 1 (5 juv. 26. 7. Mount Elgon. 



Below the slopes of xMount Elgou this species was not rare. 

 I often saw it out on the plain perched high up on an acacia 

 growing in such a position as to give the bird a clear view in 

 all directions. As a rule very viligent, it always took flight with 

 heavy, slow strokes of the wings, before one got within range. 

 On one occasion 1 observed two young birds wheeling in wide 

 circles round a small native village, and when one of them 

 swooped down on the remains of some dead animal — close to 

 a negro hut — I succeeding in shooting it. 



