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Show 1882.] FROM EASTERN AFRICA. 305 4. ACCIPITER MINULLUS. Nisus minullus, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 85 ; Fischer & Reichenow, J. f. O. 1878, pp. 251, 272. Accipiter minullus (Daud.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B.Brit. Mus. i. p. 140. Mamboio. I have also a specimen from Rabbai near Mombas, collected by the Rev. T. Wakefield. It ranges from Abyssinia southward throughout East and South Africa. 5. MELIERAX POLIOPTERUS. Melierax poliopterus, Cab. in v. d. Dacken, Reisen, iii. p. 40 ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 90; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 88. Brava in South Somali-land. This species is, as far as we yet know, exclusively East-African. The type came from the Umba river in the interior, and is I believe the only other specimen known. South of the Zambesi it is represented by the closely allied M. canorus. 6. MELIERAX NIGER. Nisus niger, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 89. Melierax niger (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 91. Micronisus niger, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 242, Mamboio. This species ranges over the whole of South and East Africa, extending northward into Abyssinia and Kordofan, and thence crosses the continent to Senegal and Casamanse. 7. GLAUCIDIUM CAPENSE. Glaucidium capense (Smith); Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 563. Mamboio. This is the most northern limit yet recorded for this species. 8. SYRNIUM WOODFORDI. Sgrnium woodfordi (Smith) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 561. Ugogo. 9. CAPRIMULGUS EUROPJEUS. Caprimulgus europceus, Linn.; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 117. Mamboio. The Common European Goatsucker ranges throughout the whole of Africa, but is everywhere migratory. 10. COSMETORNISVEXILLARIUS(Gould); Shelley,P. Z. S. 1881, p. 564. Mamboio. With regard to its range as given by me I. c, instead of Zambesi read Limpopo as its southern known limit in Eastern Africa. 21* |