124 Mr. J. H. Gurney 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman also possess two immature 

 specimens, both from Veragua, from which Mr. Sharpens 

 description of the " young " plumage is taken : they are very 

 similar to each other; but in one of them, which is beginning 

 slightly to assume the adult dress, the shaft-marks on the 

 breast are narrower than in the other and younger specimen. 



VII. — A List of Birds collected at or near Mombasa, East 

 Africa. By J. H. Gurney. 

 I HAVE been indebted to the kindness of the Rev. F. A. 

 Buxton for the opportunity of examining a collection of birds, 

 of which the following is a list. The collection was made 

 for him by Mr. J. W. Handford, of Frere Town, Mombasa, 

 East Africa, and was procured either on the island of Mombasa, 

 or near to that locality on the neighbouring mainland. Mr. 

 Handford has sent a few particulars relating to some of the 

 birds he has collected, which I have inserted in quotation- 

 marks. The species marked with an asterisk have not, so 

 far as I know, been previously recorded from Mombasa or its 

 immediate vicinity. 



■^1 . TiNNUNCULUs ALAUDARius (Liuu.) . Europcau Kestrel. 

 An adult female in worn plumage. 



2. AsTURiNULA MONOGRAMMiCA (Temm.) . One-streaked 

 Hawk. 



3. CoRACiAs GARRULus, Liuu. European Roller. 



4. CoRACiAS cAUDATus, Liuu. Lilac-brcastcd Roller. 



5. EuRYSTOMUs AFER (Lath.). Cinnamon Roller. 



" Obtained at Giriana, about forty miles from Mombasa, 

 and twenty or twenty-five inland from the coast." 



■^6. Trogon narina, Vieill. African Trogon. 



7. Halcyon orientalis, Peters. East-African Kingfisher. 

 '' Eye black." 



8. Halcyon chelicutensis (Stanley) . Striped Kingfisher. 



9. Merops albicollis, Vieill. White-throated Bee-eater. 



