856 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvm. 



Fiiiiiily UPUPID.E. 



UPUPA AFRICANA Bechstein. 



Upupa ufricana Bechktkin, Latliam's Allgeni. Uebens. Vogel, IV, 1811, p. 172 

 (type locality, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa). 



A sino'le specimen, from the Useri River, near Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 January 22, 1SH9. It is marked female, is decidedly paler than the 

 male, has the abdomen streaked, and the lower tail-coverts white, but 

 lacks the black hand across the middle of the white basal part of the 

 secondaries, such as it ought to have, and as other females in the 

 United States National Museum collection show. 



Family ASIONlDi^. 



ASIO MACULOSUS AMERIMN US, new subspecies. 



Chars, sahsj). — Resembling Asio" viaculosun iiiacnJosns. but much 

 paler throughout, as well as generally more ochraceous; legs, feet, 

 face, and crissum less heavil}'' barred with dusky. 



Geographical distribution. — Eastern Africa, from Natal to German 

 P^ast Africa. 



Description. — Type, adult female, Cat. No. 86457, U.S.N.M.; Dur- 

 ban, Natal; Thomas Ayres. Upper parts bistre brown, much mottled 

 with butf, light ochraceous, and whitish, the last most conspicuous in 

 large roundish spots on the hind-neck and external webs of the scap- 

 ulars; tail bistre with broad broken bars of bufi'; wings of the same 

 color, the coverts mottled with buii' and bufiy white, some of the 

 greater series with broad, ill-detined broken bars of bufly, and large 

 terminal or subterminal spots of white on the exterior webs, the quills 

 with wide, irregular, and more or less imperfect bars of buli'; face dull 

 brownish gray, with obsolete barrings of darker; chin and throat 

 white, separated ])y a bar of brown and ochraceous feathers; remainder 

 of lower surface dull white, tinged with but!', particularly on breast 

 and sides, and everywhere marked thickly with narrow cross lines of 

 bistre, these least numerous on the lower tail-coverts; the breast, 

 abdomen, and sides with scattered splotches of the same color; feet 

 and thighs dull white with a tinge of but!', the latter considerably, the 

 former scarcely, barred narrowly with bistre; lining of wing white, 

 mottled and narrowly barred with bistre. Length of wing, 330;^ tail, 

 200; exposed culmen, 36; culmen without cere, 23; tarsus, (58 mm. 



This hitherto unrecognized race appears to be of the same size as 

 true As'to maculosus. Its diti'erences from the latter are, however, not 

 such as appear to be attributable to individual variation, since the 



«For change of the generic name from Bubo to Asio see Stone, Auk, 1903, pp. 272- 

 27(1. 



^ Imperfect. 



