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Show 304 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON BIRDS [Mar. 7, head a broad black band runs through the eye, margined beneath by a rather narrower pale blue one; chin and throat fawn colour, with the ends of the feathers slightly more strongly washed with greenish yellow than the crown; remainder of the under surface green, with the feathers of the abdomen and under tail-coverts washed with blue towards their edges ; under surface of the quills brown, the basal portion of their inner margins and the under wing-coverts pale fawn colour ; under surface of the tail ashy brown, with a black terminal bar. Bill and legs black. Total length 9 8 inches, culmen 1, wing 3*1, tail 5*5, tarsus 0*4. I have named this bird after m y friend Mr. Dresser, who is about to publish a monograph of the Meropida, in acknowledgment of the valuable services rendered to ornithology by his large work on the Birds of Europe. 3. A second List of Birds recently collected by Sir John Kirk in Eastern Africa. By Captain G. E . S H E L L E Y . [Eeceived February 25, 1882.] (Plate XVII.) The collection of which the present paper treats was made by Sir John Kirk chiefly in the neighbourhood of Mamboio, on the eastern slopes of the mountain-range which separates Ugogo from the Zanzibar Province, but also contains some specimens from Ugogo country and two from Brava in South Somali-land, 1° N . lat. This paper is intended as a supplement to m y former one (P. Z. S. 1881, pp. 561-602). 1. ClRCAETUS CINEREUS. Circaetus cinereus, Vieill.; Shelley, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 562. Brava, in South Somali-land. 2. FALCO CUVIERI. Falco cuvieri, Smith ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 562. Ugogo. The head quarters of this H a w k is probably the unexplored regions of Central Africa. This specimen, I presume, from its size is a female. In colouring it is almost identical with m y specimen from Lamo, but is, if any thing, a shade duller. Lamo, (5? Total length 10*4 inches, wing 8.7, tail 4*9, tarsus 1*30. Ugogo,?? „ 12*2 „ „ 9*3, „ 5*25, „ 1*35. 3. AsTURINULA MONOGRAMMICA. Asturinula monogrammica (Temm.); Shelley, P.Z.S. 1881 p. 562. Ugogo. |