698 Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Pracd on [ibis, 



little doubt that it was this species. It is also of interest 

 that a bird lent us for comparison by Col. Stephenson 

 Clarke, C.B., and shot in the Loita Plains of southern 

 British East Africa, is in our opinion undoubtedly an 

 example of this species, and Mr. G. Archer, CM. G., H.M.'s 

 Commissioner for Somaliland, has recently found the same 

 bird breeding in Somalilaud. The bird appears, therefore, 

 to have a fairly extensive range in Africa. It has probably 

 been confused with A. rapa.v, and young birds are very 

 difficult to separate from that species. It may be generally 

 taken, however, that immature A. n. orientalis have the lowest 

 upper tail-coverts and the tips of the inner secondaries white, 

 and not fulvous as in A. I'apax, and that they are also darker 

 and less rufous than that species. They are also on the 

 whole distinctly larger. The adults, Avhich are very dark 

 brown, have a patch of pointed light-coloured feathers on 

 the nape. The Chapman and Lynes specimen from Erkowit 

 is said to have been nesting. 



Dr. Hartert is inclined to identify these birds with the 

 Indian subspecies A. n. nipalensis ; the distinctive characters 

 of the two races are by no means well marked. 



Aquila pomarina pomarina. 



Aquila jJomarina Brehra, Handb. Natur. Vog. Deutschl. 

 183!, p. 27: Pomerania. 



Aquila jiomarina pomarina Hartert, Vog, pal. Faun, 

 p. 1104. 



[B. coll.] 1 Khartoum Nov. 



This is the first definite record we can trace for the Sudan 

 and we believe the second only from the Ethiopian region, 

 the first being secured in 1914 by the junior author 

 in the Ithanga Hills of British East Africa (Ibis, 1917, 

 p. 407). 



Heuglin (Orn. Nordost-Afr. i. p. 47) records this species 

 under the name of A. ncevia from the Nile as far south 

 as Sennar and Kordofan, but we do not know if any of his 

 specimens are in existence It is of course only a winter 

 visitor. 



