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certain, therefore, that any Kite which may be shot in tropical 

 West Africa will be foiind to be the South African race M . tii. 

 parasiticus. 



(Very cominon, tond of lizards and frogs whicii abound around 

 the Iju water works. — W. P. L.) 



Elanus caeruleus caeruleus. 



Faco caeruleus Desfontaines, Hist. Acad. roy., Paris, 178g, 

 p. 503. — Type locality : near Algiers. 



Mr. LowE shot one spécimen of the Black-shouldered Kite at 

 Iju, near Lagos, on the 23rd December, 19 19. It was also obtained 

 in Southern Nigeria by Mr. A. W. Pomeroy at Ibadan on the 

 27th January, iqig. 



From Northern Nigeria \ve hâve a specimen-shot at Kowa Barga, 

 near Lake Chad, by Boyd Alexander in May, 1905. 



Range. — The typical species has a very wide range extending 

 in Africa (to which continent it is not confined) from Algeria to 

 Cape Colony and from Sénégal to Somaliland. It is represented in 

 the British Muséum from the following localities in Western 

 Africa: Sénégal, Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gold 

 Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Belgian Congo 

 and Angola. 



Only the typical race is found in Africa. 



(Fairly common near Lagos, noticed in the open as well as in 

 timbered country. — W. P. L.) 



Lophoaëtus occipitalis. 



Falco occipitalis Daudin, traité, 1800, p. 40. — Type localitv : 

 The Anteniquoi country = Knysna district. Cape Province. 



An adult maie of the Long-crested Hawk-Eagle was shot at Iju 

 on the igth December, 19 19, by Mr. W. P. Lowe. 



There is no record of this bird from Northern Nigeria. 



