NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 829 



Family FALCONID.E. 



GYMNOGENYS" TYPICA (Smith), 



Poloboroides [sic] tupicAif^ Smith, S. Afr. Quar. Journ., II, 1830, p. 107 (eastern 

 Cape Colony, South Africa). 



One male, from Taveta, taken Fel>ruary 5, 1889, It is not quite 

 adult, some of the brown feathers of the juvenal plumage still persist- 

 ino' above and below; and the lower tail-coverts are mostly slate color 

 barred with white. '*lris white; feet and the bare skin surrounding- 

 the eyes yellow.'' 



MICRONISUS GABAR (Daudin). 



Falco gahar Dai'din, Traite d'Orn., IV, 1800, p. 87 (" pres des rivieres Swart-Kop 

 et Sondaw; Camdeboo; entre les montagnes de Neige et le Bock-Veld [type 

 locality, Swart-Kop River, Cape Cf>lony]). 



One immature female, fi'om Taveta, January -U, 1889. '*Iris light 

 yellow; feet straw yellow,'' 



ASTUR SPARSIMFASCIATUS ACELETUS, new subspecies, 



CIuu'n. subsp. — Kesemhliiig Axtur .sj>arsitiif<ii<c!<(tiis sparshnfasci- 

 afus,'^ but bill smaller; the throat, middle of abdomen, and lower tail- 

 coverts barred with brown. 



Drsrrij}tum-— Type, adult female, Cat. No. 117876, U.S.N.M.; 

 Taveta, British P^ast Africa, July 7, L88S; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Upper 

 surface brownish slate color, almost clear slate on the nape; tail sepia 

 brown with a narrow white tip and three or four broad rather light- 

 brown bands which, on a few of the feathers, chielly basally, become 

 whitish along the inner edge of the interior webs, but the middle 

 pair entirely without white; under surface of tail paler, the light 

 spaces brownish gra}" and better defined than above; wing-quills se-' 

 barred basally on their inner webs with white, which is, however, ail 

 concealed in the closed wing; wing-coverts l)rownish slate, like the 

 upper parts; sides of head and neck slate color with a brownish tinge; 

 entire lower surface bully white, the chin, upper throat, middle of 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts with narrow, widely spaced bars of 

 hair brown, the rest of the inferior surface with broad, dark, warm 

 hair-brown liars that are often narrowly margined with tawny; thighs 

 more closely barred with the same color, but the more conspicuous 

 tawny margins produce a rufescent general appearance; lining of 

 wing bufl'y white, with mottlings and irregular bars of sepia and 

 bistre. Length of wing, 251; tail, 218; exposed culmen with cere, 25; 



« See Richmond, Auk, 1902, p. 92. 



bAstur sparsimfasciatus. Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsber., 1895, p. 97 (Zanzibar, 

 eastern Africa). 



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