Collection of Birds from Somali-land. 391 



At Mr. Lort Phillips's request I have naraed a species 

 after each of his companions; and I am sure all ornitholo- 

 gists will agree that they justly deserve this mark of our 

 appreciation of the great service they have rendered to our 

 science. 



1. Melierax gabar. 



Le Gabar, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. 1799, pi. 33. 



Falco gabar, Daud. Traite, 1800, p. 87. 



Nisus gabar, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 73, xxviii; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 86; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. 

 Brera. vii. 1881, p. 116 (Lado) ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1855, 

 p. 121. 



Melierax gabar, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 89. • 



Micronisus gabar, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 72 

 (Shoa). 



Hub. Africa generally south of about 25° N. lat., except 

 the West Coast from Sierra Leone to Angola. 



'' Fairly plentiful.'-' 



2. BUTEO AUGUR. 



Buteo augur, Riipp. Neue Wirb. 1835-40, p. 38, pi. 16. 

 figs. 1, 2 (good); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 92, xxxv; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 57; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. i. p. 175 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 122 (Mombas). 



Buteo hydrophilus, Riipp. torn. cit. p. 39, pi. 17. figs. 1, 2 

 (good) . 



Pterolestes augur, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 51 

 (Shoa). 



Hab. E. Africa, between about 15° N. lat. and 4° S. lat. 



" Only a single specimen was met with in the mountains 

 about 30 miles inland from Berbera.^' 



3. POLIOHIERAX SEMITORQUATUS. 



Falco semitorquatus, Smith, Rep. Exp. Centr. Afr. 1836, 

 p. 44; id. 111. Zool. S. Afr., Av. pi. l,^ (good) ; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. p. 38, pi. 1,(5" ju.v. (back chestnut, as in $ ad.). 



Hypotriorchis castanonoius, Heugl. Ibis, 1860, p. 407; 

 Sclat. Ibis, 1861, pi. 12 (good, ? ad.). 



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