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thers almost »hairbrown», or a little more greyish. In the 

 birds from Donya Sabuk the central parts, resp. spöt, of 

 these feathers vary from »bister» to »sepia» and plain brown, 

 and the lateral parts from »drab» to »drab gray». In none 

 of them I ha ve seen any »flecking with black near. the shaft». 

 The Escarpment birds are a little darker, the central band 

 is more like sepia, sometimes with a black subapical shaft- 

 streak. 



The feathers of the lower breast, upper abdomen and 

 flanks are rather similar in all the birds, although they at 

 the same time display a certain amount of individual va-ria- 

 tion. So for instance, Mearns mentions only for the Kenia 

 Francolin that these feathers are »penciled with sepia». Such 

 a penciling may, however, be found in bird from all three 

 localities, although it also may be absent at least in birds 

 from Donya Sabuk. 



Without going into further details I hope to have 

 proved that the variation of specimens of Francolinus schiltti 

 from British East Africa is rather considerable, although the 

 general pattern is similar. These differences in colonr are 

 not connected with certain localities only, even if this to 

 some degree is the case, but it is evidently a great indivi- 

 dual variation as well. It is very characteristic that this 

 variation is so well displayed by the series from Donya Sa- 

 buk which consists of six specimens. But considering this 

 great variation not only apparent among these specimens, 

 but also shown by the discrepancies between them and 

 Mearns' specimens, it seems rather difficult to accept the 

 three subspecies which the author quoted recently has 

 created. 



23. Francolinus uhiensis Grant. — 1 $ ^Vs, Donya 

 Sabuk. 



24. Circus macrourus Gmblin. — 1 specimen ^^jt, Donya 

 Sabuk. 



25. Astur tachiro Doudin. — 1 young J*, ^72, Donya 

 Sabuk. 



The lower tail-coverts white with a rather large dark spöt. 



26. Accipiter minullus tropicalis Reichenow. — 1 ? 



72, 1 unsexed ^V^, Donya Sabuk. 



