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General colour sooty black, tinged with chest- 

 nut on rump. (Female more brownish.) 

 56a. Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi (Audub.), B. Am., 

 pi. cccxcii., 1831 ; Orn. Biog., v., p. 30. 

 Harris's Buzzard-Hawk. 



Central and 

 N. America 

 from Panama 

 to Southern 

 U.S. 



Gen. XXIII. MELIERAX Gray (1840). 



Tarsus scaled in front, reticulated on outer aspect, 

 not feathered so far down as length of middle 

 toe. 



57. 



Size large (length 21 in. ; wing 14.8) ; 

 general plumage bluish ash; quills black; 

 wdng-coverts, secondaries, U2)per tail-coverts 

 and base of tail Avhitish freckled with 

 grey ; outer tail-feathers white, barred with 

 black ; belly Avhite, narrowly barred with 

 blackish. 



Melierax canorus canorus (Rislach), in Thunb., 

 Diss. Ac, iii., p. 264 (1799). 

 Chantincr Goshawk. 



S. Africa 



below 



15°S.lat. 



Size similar ; tail-coverts white, with numerous 

 bars of slaty grey ; tail blackish, with 4 white 

 bands, the middle feathers unbarred ; below 

 white, minutely barred with ashy grey. 

 57a. Melierax canorus metabates, Heugl.. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 72. 



Many - banded Hawk . 

 [= ilf . 2>olyzonus of authors.] 



N.E. Africa, 

 Sudan to 

 Mogador, 

 W. Arabia. 



Much lighter form. 



57b. Melierax canorus neurnanni, Hart., Vog. Pal. Nubia to 



Fauna, ii., p. 1165 (1914). Sudan & 



Neumann's Goshawk. Hausaland. 



Rather smaller ; above darker slate ; throat, 

 chest and wings, light grc}^ ; below white, with 

 narrow blackish bars ; tail black, tip and upper 

 tail-co verts Avhite. 

 57c. Melierax canorus j)oli(>})i('rus Cab., inDecken's 

 Reise, iii., Vog., p. 40 (1869). 

 E. African Goshawk. 



E. iVfrica, 

 Somaliland to 

 Kilimanjaro. 



