NU.1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILBrANJARO—OBERHOLSER. 887 



Family HELIORNITHID^]. 



PODICA SENEGALENSIS PETERSII (Hartlaub). • 



Podiea pefersli Hartlaub, Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Hamburg, 11,1852, p. 62 (Mozam- 

 bi(]ue, eastern Africa). 



One specimen from the Lumi River, near Taveta, November .30, 

 1888. ''Iris brown; feet red; bill red, excepting- a black line along- 

 the cidnien," It is of large size, and in this, as otherwise, bears out 

 the characters accredited to pefersii as distinguished from se7iegale7isis 

 proper. 



Family JACANID.F. 



ACTOPHILUS AFRICANUS (Gmelin). 



Parra a/'Hcana Gm EI IN, Syst. Nat., II, ii, 1788, p. 70!> (Africa). 



Three specimens — one adult, two immature — from Aruscha-wa-chini, 

 south of Mount Kilimanjaro, October 2f), 1889. The frontal shield 

 is much larger in the adult than in the immature bird. " Iris of adult 

 brown; frontal plate light blue; feet slate color. Iris of immature 

 (male and female) brown; frontal plate light green; feet greeiiish- 

 slate color.'' 



Family CHARADRIID.F. 



HOPLOPTERUS SPECIOSUS (Wagler). 



CJiaradrina specioi^iis Waglek, Isis, 1829, p. 649 (from Lichtenstein, in Mus. 

 Berol.) (Kaflir Laml, Soatli Africa). 



Three specimens: one from the Useri River, near Mount Kiliman- 

 jaro; the two others withovit data, but probably from the same or a 

 neighboring locality. In one of these birds there is a broad band of 

 pearl gray below and l)ordering the black of the breast; and in 

 another there is an indication of the same. 



STEPHANIBYX CORONATUS (Boddaert). 



(luiniiiriux coroiintus Boddaert, Tal)l. PL Enluni., 1783, p. 49 (Cape of Good 

 Hope, South Africa). 



Two specimens, male and female, from the plains of Lake Jipe, 

 taken Ma}' 19, 1888, agree with a specimen in the United States 

 National Museum from Uitenhage, Cape Colony. "Numerous on 

 the dry phiin." 



OCHTHODROMUS ASIATICUS (Pallas). 



Oiurudrius a.^kdtcus Pallas, Keis. Kuss. Reichs, II, 1773, \k 715 (southern 

 Tartary ) . 



Three specimens, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, Sep- 

 tember 30, 1888. All are immature, and in two of them the broad 

 brownish breast band is rather obscurely defined. "Legs (of male) 

 a'reenish.'' 



