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the Falconide are liable. I have another instance to quote, namely, in my series of 
Aquila rapax, which vary, in every stage of plumage, from a very dark brown to 
light cream-colour, the cream-coloured specimen being one of a pair of which the other 
was dark brown; the iris of the one was yellow stone-colour, and that of the other 
brown. 
The contents of the stomach of these Sparrow-hawks were insects, mostly locusts. 
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14, Nisus GaBaR (Daud.). 
Melierax gabar, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 12. no, 44. 
Micronisus gabar, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 63. 
— niloticus, Sundey. ; 
Nisus gabar, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 86. no. 30. 
a. 2. Senafé. May 22 (no. 1043). 
6.2. Ain. August. 
[Iris brown, eyelid bluish grey; cere coral-red; beak dark horn-colour; legs and feet 
coral-red, talons black. 
I procured two specimens of this Hawk, both females—one in the valley at the back 
of Senafé rock, and the other at Ain on the Lebka. Contents of stomach, small 
lizards.— W. J. 
15. Nisus NIGER (Vieill.). 
Micronisus niger, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 64. 
miltopus, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 428. 
Falco carbonarius, Licht. 
Nisus niger, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 88. no. 31. 
a. 2. Hadoda Pass. April 2 (no. 178). 
Agreeing with specimens from West Africa. The colouring of the cere and legs 
varies much in this species; the latter are mostly yellow, mixed with yellow. Some- 
times the cere and legs are vermilion-red. This is the I. miltopus of Heuglin, from 
Sennahr; I have seen such red-legged specimens also from Damaraland in the collection 
of the late C. J. Andersson.—0. F. 
[Iris brown; cere salmon-pink; beak black; tarsus pink, with scales of black (occa- 
sional) before and behind, inside of the foot salmon-pink, talons black. 
This bird was shot up the Hadoda Pass; the only other specimens I saw were 
obtained by Mr. W. T. Blanford in the neighbourhood of Kokai—a pair, I believe. 
Those obtained by Mr. Blanford had been feeding on small birds, which rather sur- 
prised us both, as most of the smaller Falconide we obtained were insectivorous.— 
W.I. 
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