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222. BuTEO DESERTORUM (Daucl.) . 

 a. S- Khartoum, 31. 10. 07. 



Not uncommon at Khai'toum in the winter. I did not see 

 it in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province. 



223. BuTASTUR RUFiPENNis (Sundev.). 



Fairly common between Meshra and Chak Chak. 



224. AsTURiNULA MoxoGRAMMicA (Temm,). 



We met with one pair of these Hawks only on our Bahr- 

 el-Ghazal trip, at the Khor Gitti, on March 24th. When I 

 saw them they were circling about high over the forest, and 

 would not descend, so that I had no chance of getting a 

 specimen. Later on in the day, however, Best managed to 

 shoot the female of the same pair. It contained an unbroken 

 egg, ready for exclusion, which he kindly gave to me. The 

 egg is pale blue in colour, without markings, like the egg 

 of a Melierax, and measures 41 x 35 mm. The eggs of 

 Asturimda have not, I believe, been described before. 



The female shot was a very beautiful specimen, and was, 

 for its size, the most compactly built and heaviest small 

 Hawk that I have ever handled. 



225. Melierax polyzonus (Rlipp.). 



This conspicuous Hawk was common wherever we travelled 

 in the Bahr-el-Ghazal. 



226. Melierax gabar (Daud.). 

 a. S . Chak Chak, 25.2.07. 



M. yabar was frequently seen during our journey from 

 Wau to Chak Chak. 



M. niger (Bonn, et Vieill.), which I believe to be a 

 melanistic variety of this species, I saw only twice — once on 

 March 2nd, between Chak Chak and Dem Zubeir, and again 

 on March 22nd at Kuanga^s Village, 



227. AsTUR SPHENURUS Rlipp. 

 a. S ■ ^Vau, 24.1.07. 



This Sparrow-Hawk was fairly common throughout the 

 country between Wau and Chak Chak. 



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