Birds from the White Nile. 44-1 
grass^, and dash down at the locusts which we disturbed. 
They were very useful^ as they followed buffalos and other 
game_, and so shewed the line which the animals were taking 
through the long grass. When they stopped the Kites left 
them; but directly they moved on the Kites would return 
and keep stooping at the locusts. — R. M. H.] 
115. Meliekax polyzonus. 
M elier ax poly z onus (Hiipp.) ; Witherby, p. 270 ; Grant & 
Reid, p. 682 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mas. ii. p. 377. 
a. $ . Jebel Auli, 4th Feb. No. 40. 
b. ^ . Kaka, 2nd March. No. 98. 
c. S pull- Kaka, 22nd April. No. 384. 
Adult. Iris dark hazel ; cere and base of upper mandible 
coral-red ; culmen and tip of lower mandible black ; legs and 
feet coral-red. 
Pull. Iris dark hazel ; bill blackish grey j cere, gape, and 
orbits yellowish; legs and feet yellowish flesh-coloured. 
[The Many-banded Goshawk was very common. I took 
two nests with eggs. One of them was evidently the old 
structure of some other bird ; the second was loosely con- 
structed of sticks and placed on the horizontal branch of 
a mimosa. The eggs of this species are new to the British 
Museum Collection.— R. M. H.] 
116. MeLIERAX GABAR. 
Melierax gabar (Daud.) ; Grant & Reid, p. 682; N. C. 
Roths. Sc WoUast. p. 28. 
a. S . Kaka, 24th April. No. 401. 
b. S ' Goz-Abu-Gumar, 16th May. No. 474. 
Iris hazel ; bill black ; gape, cere, orbits, legs, and feet red. 
[The Red-faced Goshawk was only seen on three occasions. 
— R. M. H.] 
117. LOPHOAETUS OCCIPITALIS. 
Lophoaetus occipitalis (Daud.) j Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 321 ; 
Gates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 274 (1902). 
a,b. c? ? . Eashoda. 21st March. Nos. 155, 156 f. 
t A pair breeding ; eggs taken. 
