1895.] FEOM WESTER^f SOMAXT-LAJTD. 505 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. GenoT. (2) i. p. 75 (1884), vi. p. 204 (1888) ; 

 Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 85 (1894). 



a. $ ad. Sheik Mahomed, Oct. 28, 1894. Iris dark brown ; 

 face cream-colour mottled with orange ; base of bill white ; 

 legs pale yellow. 



Heuglin found the present species resident in Shoa, Fazogl, 

 Seuar, Kordofan, and in the country of the White Nile and its 

 tributaries. It is everywhere rare, and was only observed siugl}'', 

 in .June on the Blue Xile, in September and October in Kordofan 

 and on the Lower White Nile, in May in the Dinka and Djur 

 countries in the Gazelle River district. Brehm met with it in 

 August and September on the Blue Nile; Riippell obtained an 

 example in Shoa, and specimens were also procured there both by 

 Antinori and Eagazzi. Mr. Jackson does not appear to have met 

 with the species on any of his journeys, but I have seen a very 

 black immature specimen obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot on Ruwen- 

 zori. According to Dr. Eeiohenow, it has been found on Kilima- 

 njaro, and in LTsaramo and Walla, and at Kakoma. 



140. ClECtrS MACEURDS. 



Circus swainsoni, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 105 (1869) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 76 (1884), vi. p. 225 (1888). 



Circus macrurus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 67 (1874) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 535 ; Eeichen. V.ig. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 86 (1894). 



a. Juv. Sheik Mahomed, Nov. 5, 1894. Iris dark brown ; 



feet and base of bill yellow ; cere grey. 

 h. 5 ad. Budda, Nov. 11, 1894. Iris yellowish brown; feet 



light yellow ; base of bill yellow. 



Common in spring and autumn, according to Heuglin, in Senar, 

 Abyssinia, and Kordofan. Antinori met with the species at 

 Dairabi in Shoa in November and December, and Dr. Eagazzi at 

 Dembi in February. Mr. Jackson procured specimens in Turquel 

 in January, and at Machako's in March ; and Dr. Eeichenow records 

 the species from Igonda. 



141. ASTUE SPHEXrEUS. 



Msus hadius (nee Grm.), Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 70 (1869), 

 Astur sphenurus (Etipp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 113 



(1874). 



Scdospizias sphenurus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 72 



(1884). 



a. c? ad. Ehrer Eiver, Aug. 18, 1894. Iris red ; cere, feet, and 

 eyelids bright yellow. 



This species is recorded from the Dahlak Islands by Riippell, 

 and by Hemprich and Ehrenberg from Arabia. Heuglin collected 

 it on the coast-land of Abyssinia, in Bogos-land, on the Mareb and 

 near Adowa in Tigrie, in the " Quola " of Western Abyssinia, on the 

 Blue Nile near Senar and Khartoum, and along the whole of the 

 White Nile and Gazelle Eiver, westwards to Kosanga in Equatorial 



