FALCONID^ PERNIS 345 



Andersson on March 10th, 1865, at Otjimbinque in Damaraland ; the 

 type, a female, is now preserved in the Norwich Museum. Another, 

 a male, also obtained by Andersson, is in the British Museum, and 

 a third shot by Eriksson at Omaruru also in Damaraland is at 

 Stockholm. The bird though apparently rare is more widely spread 



FIG. 118. Machcerliamphus anderssoni. x \. 



than it was at first supposed, as it has been recorded from Loango 

 in French Congo, from Somaliland, from the coast of British East 

 Africa and from Madagascar. 



There are also two examples in the Durban Museum shot near 

 that town, one in 1892 the other on July 1st, 1897. 



Habits. Andersson states that he believes this bird to be 

 nocturnal in its habits. He found bats in the stomach of the two 

 examples examined by him. 



Genus XIX. PERNIS. 



Type. 



Pernis, Cuvier, Eegm An. i, p. 322 (1817) P. apivorus. 



Bill somewhat weak and compressed with no trace of the 

 festoon and with but a slight hook ; nostrils linear and oblique with 

 a membranous upper margin ; lores and portion of the face in front 

 of the eye covered- with small well-developed scale-like feathers not 

 with bristles ; head crested ; wings long and pointed ; tail rounded ; 

 tarsus with the upper third feathered in front and the lower bare 

 portion covered with small round or hexagonal scales. 



