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banded across both webs ; inner under wing-coverts more or less vinous 
and banded ; edge of wing buff. Wing, 227 ; tail, 146 ; tars., 39 ; 
culm., 13*5 mm. 
Type of d T.M. No. 8454 ; ex coll. C. B. Horsbrugh, Pretoria, 24.X.04. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 8455 ; same coll, and loc., 24.X.04. 
The female is larger, more distinctly banded on under tail-coverts 
and less distinctly on the central tail-feathers. Wing, 240 ; tail, 160 ; 
tars., 41 ; culm., 15*5 mm. 
These two specimens were shot by Mr. Horsbrugh near a nest, 
discovered by us a few minutes later, in which were three newly hatched 
young and an egg ; an attempt was made to rear the former in the 
Zoological Gardens without success, and the latter was preserved and 
subsequently described by Mr. J. A. Bucknill in the Journal of the South 
African Ornithologist's Union under the name of Falco ruficollis , which 
the birds were then thought to be. The nest was brought to the Museum 
and mounted by Mr. Horsbrugh. 
Pisorhina capensis (A. Smith). 
In the collection is a series of fifteen skins of this species, representing 
four distinct races, which we propose to place as follows : — 
Pisorhina capensis capensis. 
Two adults from Grahamstown, one juvenile from Matatiele. 
In general effect dark brown, strongly washed with rufous above, the 
tail in particular ; tarsi rufous. Wing, 134-138 ; tail, 61 mm. 
Pisorhina capensis intermedia , subsp. nov. 
Nine adults and one juvenile from Transvaal (Modderfontein, Hector 
Spruit, Pretoria, Waterberg, and Middelburg Districts). 
Differs from P. c. capensis in being much greyer in general effect, 
and not so strongly washed with rufous ; streaks on the under-surface 
broader ; no rufous on tail ; tarsi white. Wing, 132-143 ; tail, 63-68 mm. 
Type of T.M. No. 1391 : ex coll. F. 0. Noome, Pretoria, 8.YI.08. 
Of $ T.M. No. 8125 ; ex coll. F. Streeter, Hector Spruit, E. Transvaal, 
5.V.11. 
Pisorhina capensis grisea , subsp. nov. 
One adult from Bethulie, O.F.S. 
Very similar to P. c. intermedia , but darker grey with hardly a trace 
of rufous ; tail and tarsi grey. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 1392 ; ex coll. R. Chambers, Bethulie, O.F.S. , 
23.VI.08. Wing, 143 ; tail, 65 mm. 
Pisorhina capensis pusilla , subsp. nov. 
Two adults, dd, from Boror, Portuguese East Africa. 
Quite distinct from the three foregoing in being whiter on the 
abdominal region, which is also not so profusely speckled and streaked ; 
general effect grey suffused with fiery yellowish to chestnut ; tail grey, 
washed with rufous ; tarsi yellowish white. Wing, 127-129 ; tail, 56 mm. 
Type T.M. No. 5218 ; ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Namabieda, Boror, 
P.E. Africa, 31.IX.08. 
Glaucidium capense rufum , subsp. nov. 
This species differs mainly from G. capense in having from ten to 
twelve bars on the tail-feathers and not fourteen. 
All feathers of top of head and hindneck brown, with an indication 
of chestnut on the forehead with two white bars, increasing to three or 
