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Show 508 DR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS [May 21. Samhar coast, as, for instance, in the valleys of Ailat and The light form of this Eagle, known as A. albicans, was obtained in Shoa by Antinori, who collected many specimens. Mr. Jackson has found the species in Turquel, and Dr. Reichenow records it from Aruscha. 147. HELOTARSUS ECAUDATUS. Helotarsus ecaudatus (Daud.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 80 (1869); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 46 (1884) ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 91 (1894). «. d ad. Sheik Husein, Sept. 25. Irides rich brown : sides of face and eyebrows orange, with small vermilion blotches ; bill bright yellow-ochre at the base, shading abruptly into black towards the apex; feet yellow, varying irregularly from straw- to pale salmon-colour. Heuglin says that he found the Bateleur Eagle from the Bajuda desert and Takah southwards throughout the whole of Abyssinia, on the Danakil and Somali coasts, in Senar, Kordofan, and the district of the Blue Nile ; also on the White Nile and Gazelle River. Antinori records it from the country of the Eisa and Adal Somalis, as well as from Shoa aud the Gala country. Mr. Jackson has not yet obtained it, but Dr. Reichenow notes it from Ugalla, Masailand, Wembere, Usseguha, Kagehi, and the Simiu River. 148. EUTOLMAETUS SPILOGASTER. Spizaetus spilogaster, Du Bus ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 57 (1869). Nisaetus spilogaster, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, i. p. 252 (1874); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 44 (1884). A. d ad. Nov. 22,1894. Bill light grey ; feet greenish yellow ; iris yellow-ochre. A male bird in fine adult plumage. Heuglin says that this species was observed by him in Northeastern Africa in the months of April, May, September, and November, but not during the true winter season. He states that it was nowhere common, but he observed it on the upper Mareb near Gundet, in Hamedo in the province of Tigrie, on the western slope of the Abyssinian highlands near Wohni, and in Qalabat, in East Senar near Doka, and finally on the Blue Nile northwestwards to tbe neighbourhood of Khartoum. It is not rare at Denz in Shoa, according to Antinori, bnt it has not yet been recorded from East Africa. 149. HALIAETUS VOCIFER. Haliaetus vocifer (Daud.); Heugl. t. c. p. 53 (1869); Sharpe, t. c. p. 310 (1874); Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xxxi. art. 10, p. 1 (1886): Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 45 (1884), vi. p. 196 (1888); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 538 ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch- Ost-Afr. p. 90 (1894). |
