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The eggs had the following measurements and weight: 



1. 38.2 X 30.9 mm. 1.07 gr. 



2. 40.7 X 31 mm. 1.21 gr. 



In form they are slightly ventricous and blunted at both 

 ends, thus closely corresponding to the ovate type. The shell 

 is hard and thick and not as, for instance, in dove-eggs, — which 

 they resemble very much — dimply and granulous but smooth 

 and dull without any gloss. In colour they are white. 



In the stomachs of some individuals I found only fruits and 

 bits of plants, in others the remains of grasshoppers and various 

 insects. 



This turaco occurs as high up as 11,000 feet and is thus 

 found beyond the forest. I have even observed it on various 

 occasions in the bamboo-woods. 



Wing, 

 IGO, 160, 166, 167, 168, 170, 170, 171, 176 mm. cfd'. 

 160, 163, 166, 168, 170, 175 mm. 99. 

 Tarsus, 

 38—41 mm. cfcf. 

 38—41 mm. 99. 

 hides dark-brown; bill brownish red, green at the base; 

 legs dark-grey-black. , 



Cuculidae. 



Centropus monachus monachus ^ occidentalis. 

 1 (5 ad. 18. 4. Kiambu. 



In the forests at Kiambu (near Nairobi) I saw this Cuckoo 

 a few times. It kept, as a rule, to the edge of the forest, where 

 the dense brushwood grows. 



The specimen I procured is light-brown or ochraceous on 

 the whole of the under-surface, which colour, however, can easily 

 be washed away with a damp piece of cotton. Thus it is only 

 a staining caused by the reddish-brown laterite of the ground, 

 which has caused this colour. 



This specimen ditfers from others in the Berlin Museum 

 collection, with which I have compared it. The back of this 

 individual is not uniformly chestnut-brown but almost of the 

 same colour as Centropus (monachus) fischeri Rchw., that is, 

 blackish brown. And yet it is undoubtedly near C. m. monachus^). 



1) Perhaps my bird is an unnamed new form of C. monachus, 

 but according to Grant (Ibis, 1915, p. 421) the true C. m. monachus 

 occurs southwards to Kikuyu. — But it resembles the Central Abyssinia 

 form (described by Neumann: Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. XXI, p. 77) 



