Collection of Birds made in Northern Somaliland. 321 
b. <£. Burao, 24th Feb., 1906. 
c. <$ . Waghar, 10tli-30th Oct., 1905. 
Iris raw sienna; bill dark slate-coloured; cere canary- 
yellow ; legs and feet reddish-orange, nails blue-black. 
Melierax gabar (Baud.). 
Micronisus gabar Reich, i. p. 565 (1901). 
a-e. £ £ et £ $ imm. Burao, 9th Jan.-21st March, 
1906. 
Iris tawny-brown; cere pink or orange; bill slate-coloured; 
legs and feet orange. 
Melierax niger (Vieill.). 
Melierax niger Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 419 ; Butler, 
Ibis, 1908, p. 419. 
Micronisus niger Reich, i. p. 567 (1901). 
a. 2 • Waghar, 29th Nov., 1905. 
Iris brown; bill orange at the base, slate-coloured at the 
tip; legs and feet vermilion, toes blue-black. 
Mr. Butler considers that this bird is merely a melanism 
of M. gabar. 
Buteo augur Rupp. 
Buteo augur Reich, i. p. 592 (1901). 
a. $ . Waghar, 6th Oct., 1905. 
Iris dark brown; bill dark slate-coloured, cere orange; legs 
and feet orange, toes bluish-black. 
Milvus iEGYPTius Gmel. 
Milvus eegyptius Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 420; Reich, 
i. p. 609 (1901). 
a-d. S ? • Waghar, 18th Sept.-6th Nov., 1905. 
Falco tanypterus Schl. 
j Valeo tanypterus Reich, i. p. 626 (1901). 
a. Dubar, 4th June, 1905. 
b. $ . Burao, 21st March, 1906. 
Iris brown; bill slate-coloured at the tip, shading to yel¬ 
lowish-white at the base ; cere yellow; legs and feet yellow, 
nails blue-black. 
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