NO. 1197. BIBBS FEOM MADAGASCAR— OBEBHOLSEB. 239 



FALCO MINOR Bonaparte. 

 Falco minor Bonaparte, Eev. et Mag. de Zool., 1850, p. 484. 

 One specimen from the Ambohitritrimo Forest, East Imerina, Decem- 

 ber, 1894. This bird is an immature female, with dark brown upper 

 parts and streaked lower surface. The ground color of the hind neck is 

 bufty ochraceous, not deep rufous, as given by Sharpe.^ 



BUTEO BRACHYPTERUS Hartlaub. 



Buteo brachypterus Hartlaub, Jouru. f. Orn., 1860, p. 11 (from tlie Pelzeln man- 

 uscript). 



One adult male taken from the East Imerina Forest, taken in Octo- 

 ber, 1895. 



ACCIPITER MADAGASCARIENSIS Verreaux. 

 Accipiter madagascarlensis J. Verreaux, S. Afr. Quar. Journ., II, 1833, p. 80. 

 Two immature females from East Imerina, February, 1895. 



ACCIPITER FRANCESII Smith. 

 Accipiter francesii Smith, S. Afr. Quar. Journ., II, 1834, p. 280. 



Five specimens, from the East Imerina and Ambohitritrimo forests. 

 AH seem to be more or less immature, most of them with the bars on 

 the middle tail-feathers not distinctly indicated. The different indi- 

 viduals vary somewhat in the width of the barring below. 



CIRCUS MAILLARDI Verreaux. 



Circus maillardi Verreaux, in Maillard I'lle de la Keun., II, 1863, p. 12. 



One handsome adult male from the East Imerina Forest, taken in 

 October, 1895. 



POLYBOROIDES RADIATUS (Scopoli). 



Fvltiir radiaius Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun., Insubr., II, 1786, p. 85. 

 Polyioroides radiatus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, p. 5. 



One adult female from the Mampidongy Forest, East Imerina, Feb- 

 ruary, 1896. "Iris dark brown, feet yellowish." 



Family BUBONID^. 



PISORHINA MENADENSIS RUTILA (Pucheran). 



Scops rutilus Pucheran, Eev. et Mag. de Zool., 1849, p. 29. 



Three specimens. Two of these, respectively from the Ambohitri- 

 trimo and Vorwate forests, East Imerina, are immature birds in the 

 rufous phase, with the adult plumage not yet fully acquired, the old 

 feathers still persisting on the nape. The remaining example is an 

 adult in the brown phase, and is quite dark. 



i Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 1, 1874, p. 383. 



