Page 6. In sert:—P s e u d o g y p s a f r i c a n u s (S a lm d .), A f r i c a n W h i t e -
b a c k e d V u l t u r e .
Senor Anchieta states th a t this species is common at Humbe on the
Cnnene River ; native name Kubi. Professor Barboza dn Bocage
suggests th a t the Gyps Tcolbii identified by Andersson in Damara
Land, bnt of which no specimen was sent by him to England, may
after all have been the present species. We think this very likely.
Adult.—General colour deep brown, some of the feathers on the
back and wing-coverts blackish brown ; lower back and rump pure
white ; upper tail-coverts brown; some inclining to blackish;
quills and tail black, the secondaries with an external ashy-grey
shade; raff white, rather scanty; crop-patch brown ; rest of under
surface pale brown with very narrow yellowish-white shaft-lines ;
bill brownish-black, the culmen yellowish; feet dusky plumbeous ;
iris umber brown. Total length, abont 30 inches; culmen, 3‘2 ;
wing about 22 ; tail, 9 ; tarsus about 4 '5 ; middle toe, 5.
Immature female.—Eulvous brown, the secondaries lighter and more
ashy ; quills and tail blackish brown, the former externally shaded
with greyish; lower back and rump white ; upper tail-coverts
brown, terminally washed with fulvous white; crop-patch brown;
rest of under surface brown, paler and more fulvescent in centre
of body, the feathers with pale fulvous-white central streaks, very
indistinct. Total length, 34 inches; culmen, 3T5 ; wing, 24-5 ;
tail, 11'5; tarsus, 3'5.
Fig. Bocage, Orn. Angola, pi. 9.
Page 6. N e o p h r o n p e r c n o p te r u s .
Orange River (Hr. Bradshaw).
Mossamedes (Sala, Mus. Lugd.)—cf. Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 4.
Lydenburg District (Ayres).
Buffalo River, about four miles, east of Newcastle (Butler).
Colenso, Nov. 20th (Reid).
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Ramaqueban River, August (F. Oates).
Mashoona Land (Ayres).
Page 8. S e r p e n t a r iu s s e c r e t a r i u s .
Dr. Bradshaw says th a t he has never seen one of these birds near the
Orange River, and but very few in the Zambesi country.
Near Lydenburg, Rustenberg, and sparingly throughout the Transvaal
and Free State (Barratt).
Common in Newcastle District, becoming scarcer down country
(B., F., and B .).
Mashoona Land (Ayres).
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Two specimens on the Orange R iv e r; also shot on the Chobe River
(Bradshaw).
Humbe on the Cunene River (Anchieta).
Two specimens obtained a t the kloofs of the Drakensberg, near
Newcastle (B., F., and R-).
Page 11. C ir c u s m a c ru ru s .
L y d e n b u rg (Barratt).
Near Newcastle (B., F., and B .).
Page 12. C i r c u s p y g a rg u s .
Lydenburg, Transvaal (Barratt).
“ Very plentiful on m y brother’s farm about fifteen miles from Potchefstroom”
(Ayres).
Spalding’s, H a rt River, February 3rd (Ayres).
Page 14. C i r c u s r a n iv o r u s .
Huilla in Bengnela (Anchieta).
Very common in marshes close to Durban (Shelley).
Breeds in the Transvaal (Ayres).
E x c e e d in g ly numerous everywhere near Newcastle, nesting in th e vle y s
(B., F., and B .).
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“ This is the commonest species in Kovana Land, and it extends far
into the colony. I have not met with it further north than the
Makalapsi River, about twenty miles to the northward of Shoshong
in Bamangwato ” (Bradshaw).
“ Transvaal; they generally seem to keep to the low rocky ridges a
few miles from Potchefstroom ” (Ayres).
Rustenberg (Ayres).
Bush Veldt between Pretoria and Bamangwato, July (F. Oates).
Page 18. M e lie r a x 'p o ly z o n u s .
Humbe, Cunene River ; native name, Kahahula (Anchieta).
Prof. Barboza du Bocage thinks th a t all the South-west African birds
are M. mechowi (Gab.).
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Common along the Orange River (Bradshaw).
Very common near Hnmbe; native names, Lucoi and Kuatakuti
(Anchieta).
Marico ; near Potchefstroom ; near Pretoria ; found breeding near the
Modder River (Barratt).