NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 857 



Natal specimens are all in the gray phase. It may be distinguished 

 from Asia ///acnlosus cineraseens/'' whose range it approaches to the 

 northward, in greater size, heavily feathered toes, and larger, more con- 

 spicuous whitish spots on cervix and scapulars. It seems to l)e (juitc 

 certainly without a name, for the original A^lo v u to domes, '^ as well as 

 its only synonym,'" were both based on specimens from the Clape of 

 Good Hope. 



The single example of A.,sl() inacidosiis t(inri'/ iiui an secured I)}' Doctor 

 Abbott was taken on Mount Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of 5,000 feet, 

 November 8, 1S80. It is a young female, chiefly in the downy 

 plumage, though with wings and tail nearly full grown. The face 

 is tawny ochraceous, scarcel}^ barred, thus quite similar in this respect 

 to the specimen from Rehoboth, Damara Land, mentioned by Doctor 

 Reichenow;'^ the general tone of the plumage is much more ochraceous 

 than that of our specimens from Natal, and this, in connection with 

 what Doctor Rcichenow savs of a ])ird from Songca, near Lake Nyassa,'^ 

 is added evidence of what has been intimated by a recent writer,'' 

 that there exists in this species a kind of dichromalism, like that in the 

 American forms of the genus.-' It is noteworthy that even in such a 

 3"0ung bird the iris as reported ])v the collector is "straw 3"ellow." 



ASIO LACTEUS (Temminck). 



/SVm; ^«c/m Temminck, PI. Col., 11, l'62(), pi. iv (Senegal). 

 Bnho lacteus Authors. 



One apparently typical specimen, from the plains east of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, October 7, 1888. '"Iris brown.'' 



Fami ly CAPRIMULOID.F:. 



CAPRIMULGUS FOSSII FOSSII Hartlaub. 



Caprimvlgnsfossii Hartlacb, Urn. Wej^tafr., lSn7, p. 'J'.l (Verreaux, manuscript) 

 (Gabun, western Africa). 



Five specimens: one without data; the others from Kahe, south of 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, Ma}" 8, 1888, September 5, 1888, and August 4, 

 1889. They appear to be ty])\ca\Jo,ssii, though rather small. Aside 

 from the sexual distinctions pointed out by Doctors Sharped' and 

 Reichenow,'* our .single adult female differs from the male in being 

 more closely and evenly barred with dark brown or blackish on the 



" Bubo cinerascens Guer'm, Rev. Zoo!., 1843, p. 321 (Abyssinia). 



bStrix maculosa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., VII, 1817, p. 44. 



cSlrix africana Temminck, PI. Col., II, 1821, pi. h. 



o^Vogel Africas, 1, 1901, p. 655. 



^Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 24. 



/Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, pp. 177 et seq. 



9Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., XVI, 1892, p. 551. 



A Vogel Africas, II, 1903, p. 365. 



