562 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON [May 3, 



Rare in Eastern Africa, where it has previously only been recorded 

 from the island of Zanzibar. Its range appears to be East Africa 

 southward from the Usambara country, and South Africa, where it 

 becomes rarer in the western districts. 



3. LOPHOAETTJS OCCIPITALIS. 



Spizaetus occipitalis (Daud.), Finsch & Hartl. Vdg. Ostafr. p. 50; 

 Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, p. 251 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, 

 pp. 276, 292. 



Lophoaetus occipitalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 274. 



Usambara hills. 



Dr. Fischer found it abundant from Melinda, round Formosa Bay, 

 to Witu. It inhabits the whole of Africa south of about 17° N. lat. 



4. CiRCAETUS CINEREUS. 



Circaetus cinereus (VieilL), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr, p. 54 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 282. 

 Usambara mountains. 

 It inhabits the whole of Africa south of about 16° N. lat. 



5. BUTASTUR RUFIPENNIS. 



Buteo rufpennis, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 214, pi. 22. 

 Poliornis rvfipennis, Sundev., Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 95. 

 Butastur rufpennis, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 299. 



Pangani. 



This is the most southern limit whence the species has been re- 

 corded. It ranges northward to Kordofan. 



6. Falco cuvieri. 



Falco cuvieri, Smith, Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 400. 



Lamo. 



New to East Africa. This rare species was formerly only known 

 from South and West Africa. 



7. Baza verreauxi. 



Baza verreauxi (Lafr.), Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 354. 



Avicida orientalis, Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, p. 292. 



Avicida verreauxi, Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 339. 



I recently procured a specimen of this rare Cuckoo-Falcon from 

 a small collection made by the Rev. Thomas Wakefield at Rabbai, 

 near Mombas. Dr. Fischer collected it at Muniuni. It ranges 

 along the bushy coast-land of East Africa, as far south as Natal. 



8. Asttjrinula monogrammica. 



Asturinula monogrammica (Temm.), Finsch & Hartl. Vtig. Ost- 

 Afr. p. 59 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S, 1873, p. 711 ; id. Cat. B. i. p. 275 ; 

 Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 354 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 242 ; Fischer 



