362 Lieut. C. W. Mackwortli-Fraed on [Ibis, 



are smaller and rather more numerous, and in colour are a 

 pale neutral tint and washed-out sienna. The second egg 

 is almost pure white, but if closely examined shows a few 

 very faint markings of the palest sienna. The two eggs 

 measure 34'9 x 28*6 mm. and 33-1 x 280 mm. 



Accipiter gularis. 

 The Japanese Sparrow-Hawk. 



This Sparrow-Hawk is only found in India as a rare 

 straggler, but does not, of course, breed there. 



I have had three clutches of its eggs from the late 

 Alan Owston, taken on Fuji in April. The number of eggs 

 in each clutch was five, and all three clutches are very 

 similar in appearance, being rather profusely covered with 

 ill-defined blotches of light brown, here and there mixed 

 with darker specks, lines, and other irregular markings of 

 deep vandyke-brown. In most eggs the markings are dis- 

 tributed unevenly over the whole surface of the egg, but in 

 some they were more numerous at the larger end, in two at 

 the smaller, while in one egg they coalesce to form a deep 

 band round the centre. In length they vary between 38*1 

 and 41"4 mm., in breadth between 31 "5 and 32'5 mm., and 

 thev average 39"9 x 32"1 mm. 



XIX. — A Collection of Birds from two Districts of British 

 East Africa. By C. W. Mackworth-Praed, Lieut. 

 Scots Guards, M.B.O.U. 



(Text-figure 3.) 



In July 1914 I was going on a shooting-trip up the Tsavo 

 Kiver after certain kinds of big-game animals, and I thought 

 I might as well collect birds too. It was my first experience 

 of African birds, and I knew nothing whatever about them. 

 Consequently I collected as many different species as 

 possible, and lost the opportunity of getting a series of 

 several uncommon birds I met with. Such birds, for 



