438 MR. II. B. SIIAKPE ON BIRDS 



94. Baza cuculoides (Swains.); Sharpe, Gat. B. i. p. 354, 

 pi. xi. fig. 2. — Aviceda cuculoides, Heugl. t. e. p. 106, note. 



A pair of birds from Semniio, February. They are identical 

 with G-aboon specimens. Baron von Heuglin identified a bird 

 seen, but not procured, by him in the country of the Dor 

 Negros as being probably of the present species, and he was no 

 doubt correct in the identification. 



95. Ceechneis ardesiaca {Bon. Sf Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. 

 p. 446. — Falco ardesiacus, Heugl. ^. c. p. 34 ; Hartl. op. cit. vii. 

 p. 115. 



Two adult birds from Ndoruma, September. Identical with 

 Senegambian and Bogos specimens. 



96. Ceechneis tinnunculus (Z.) ; Sharpe, Oat. B. i. p. 425. 

 — F. tinnunculus, Heugl. t. c. p. 40. 



A young male from Jur Grattas, shot in November, of the 

 ordinary European type, and not belonging to the dark resident 

 race of the Abyssinian highlands. 



97. Falco ruficollis, Sio. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 404 ; Hartl. 

 op. cit. vii. p. 115. — F. chicquera, Heugl. t. c. p. 36. 



Two immature birds from Semmio, April. 



Mr. Grurney very aptly refers to my omission of the young 

 plumages in my description of the species (I. c.). I had not at 

 that time any immature birds in the Museum collection ; but he 

 has supplied some very good notes on the subject in the ' Ibis ' 

 for 1882 (p. 162). 



A young bird of this species may be recognized at a glance by 

 its much darker colour, dusky mantle, broader black bars, dusky 

 rufous head, with broad black centres to the feathers, and by the 

 rufous margins to the feathers of the upper parts. The change 

 to the uniform rufous head and blue-grey upper surface is by a 

 direct moult, the new feathers on the back being light blue-grey 

 with narrow black cross bars. On the under surface of the body 

 the rufous colouring of the breast is more of a sienna-colour and 

 the throat is also rufescent, while the flanks are also nearly 

 uniform ; the cross bars on the flanks and sides of the breast are 

 also broader and coarser. 



98. Bubo cinerascens, Gtier. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 32 ; Hartl. 

 op. cit. viii. p. 215. 



An adult bird from Ndoruma, killed in July. It seems to be 

 identical with specimens from Bogos Laud in the Museum, and 

 not with true B. maculosus of South Africa. 



