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grass^ and dash down at the locusts which we disturbed. 

 They were very useful, as they followed buffalos and other 

 game, and so shewed the line which the animals were taking 

 through the long grass. When they stopped the Kites left 

 them; but directly they moved on the Kites would return 

 and keep stooping at the locusts. — R. M. H.] 



115. Melierax polyzonus. 



Melierax polyzonus (RUpp.) ; Witherby, p. 270 ; Grant & 

 lleid, p. 682 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 377. 



a. ? . Jebel Auli, 4th Feb. No. 40. 



b. S • Kaka, 2nd March. No. 98. 



c. ^ pull. Kaka, 22nd April. No. 384. 



Adult. Iris dark hazel ; cere and base of upper mandible 

 coral-red; culmen and tip of lower mandible black ; legs and 

 feet coral -red. 



Pull. Iris dark hazel ; bill blackish grey ; cere, gape, and 

 orbits yellowish; legs and feet yellowish flesh-coloured. 



[The Many-banded Goshawk was very common. I took 

 two nests with eggs. One of them was evidently the old 

 structure of some other bird ; the second was loosely con- 

 structed of sticks and placed on the horizontal branch of 

 a mimosa. Tlie eggs of this species are new to the British 

 Museum Collection. — R. M. H.] 



116. Melierax GABAR. 



Melierax gabar (Daud.) ; Grant & Reid, p. 682 ; N. C. 

 Roths. & Wollast. p. 28. 



a. S- Kaka, 24th April. No. 401. 



b. S . Goz-Abu-Gumar, 16th May. No. 474. 



Iris hazel ; bill black ; gape, cere, orbits, legs, and feet red. 

 [The Red-faced Goshawk was only seen on three occasions, 

 — R. M. H.] 



117. LoPHOAisTUS OCCIPITALIS. 



Lophoaetus occipitalis (Daud.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 321 ; 

 Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 274 (1902). 



a, b. c? ? . Fashoda. 21st March. Nos. 155, 156 f. 



t A pair breeding ; eggs taken. 



