256 Mr. C. Chubb on Birds from [Ibis, 



Buzzard, and in many respects are like a small edition of 

 B. ferox. 



In the collection of the British Museum I found some 

 verj similar specimens from Africa, viz. : 1 (?, Mana- 

 gasha Mt., 10,000 feet, nr. Addis Ababa, May (Zaphiro) ; 

 1, Zomba, July ; 1 c? , Mt. Malosa, 5500 feet, November, 

 Nyasaland (Whyte) ; 1, East Loudon, Cape Prov,, Sep- 

 tember (Rickard) ; and 1 from South Africa with no 

 history. 



Here again we have a May and a July bird which should 

 be breeding in Russia during the months in which they were 

 taken in Africa. 



As it does not seem possible to identify these Buzzards 

 with B. b. rvfiventer [desertornm auct.), I have provisionally 

 assigned them to this Caucasian race in the hope that what I 

 have done may draw the attention of others to the difficulties 

 which surround the idoitification of African Buzzards and 

 encourage further ol)servation and collecting. 



XV. — Notes on Collections of Birds in the British Museum, 

 from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Part II. 



PODICIPEDIFORMES AcClPITlUFORMES. By ChARLES 



Chubb, F.Z S., M.B.O.U.^ 



[Publislied by permission of tlie Trustees of the British Museum.] 



Family Podicipedid^. 



Podiceps brachyrhynchus. 



Podicej)S brachyrhynchus Chapman, Bull. Anier. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. xiii. 1899, p. 255: jNlatto Grosso. 



No. 1252. ? iinm. Eten, N.W. Peru, 15 metres, 

 21 Sept. 1899. 



Podiceps americanus. 



Podiceps americanus Garnot, Voy. ' Coquille,' Zool. i. 1829 

 p. 599 : Chile. 



* Continued from p. 55. 



