508 DR. R. B. SHARPE OH" BiBDS [May 21, 



Sarahar coast, as, for instance, in the valleys of Ailat and Azux. 

 The light form of this Eagle, known as A. albicans, was obtained 

 in Shoa bv Antinori, who collected many specimens. Mr. Jackson 

 has found the species in Turquel, and Dr. Eeichenow records it 

 from Aruscha. 



147. Helotarsus ecaudatus. 



Helotarsus ecaudatus (Daud.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 80 

 (1869) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Geuov. (2) i. p. 46 (1884) ; Eeichen, 

 Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 91 (1894). 



a. (S ad. Sheik Huseiu, Sept. 25. Irides rich brown : sides of 

 face and eyebrows orange, with small vermilion blotches ; bill 

 bright yellow-ochre at the base, shading abruptly into black 

 towards the apex ; feet yellowy varying irregularly from 

 straw- to pale salmon-colour. 

 Heuglin says that he found the Bateleur Eagle from the Bajuda 

 desert and Takah southwards throughout the whole of Abyssinia, 

 on the Danakil and Somali coasts, in Senar, Kordofan, and the 

 district of the Blue Nile ; also on the White Nile and Gazelle River. 

 Antinori records it from the country of the Eisa and Adal Somalis, 

 as well as from Shoa and the Gala country. Mr. Jackson has not 

 yet obtained it, but Dr. Eeichenow notes it from Ugalla, Masai- 

 land, Wembere, Ussegiiha, Kagehi, and the Simiu Eiver. 



148. EUTOLilAEirS spilogastee. 



Spizaetus spilogaster, Du Bus ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 57 

 (1869). 



Nisaetus spilogaster, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, i. p. 252 (1874); 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 44 (1884). 



a. c? ad. Nov. 22, 1894. Billlight grey ; feet greenish yellow ; 

 iris yellow-ochre. 



A male bird in fine adult plumage. 



Heuglin says that this species was observed by him in North- 

 eastern Africa in the months of April, May, September, and 

 November, but not during the true winter season. He states that 

 it was nowhere common, but he observed it on the upper Mareb 

 near Gundet, in Hamedo in the province of Tigrie, on the western 

 slope of the Abyssinian highlands near Wohni, and in Qalabat, 

 in East Senar near Doka, and finally on the Blue Nile northwest- 

 wards to the neighbourhood of Khartoum. It is not rare at Denz 

 in Shoa, according to Antinori, bnt it has not yet been recorded 

 from East Africa. 



149. Haliaetus vocifeb. 



Ealioetus vocifer (Daud.); Heugl. t. c. p. 53 (1869); Sharpe, 

 t. c. p. 310 (1874) ; Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xixi. art. 

 10, p. 1 (1886) : Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 45 (1884), vi. 

 p. 196 (1888) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 538 ; Eeichen. Vdg. Deutsch- 

 Ost-Afr. p. 90 (1894). 



