72 FALC0NIDJ3. 



with eight bands of scpia-hrown ; the outer feathers for the most 

 part orange-rufous ; the ashy-grey bars distinct only towards the 

 tips, the basal bars mixed with or entirely obscured by rufous ; head 

 and sides of face brown, slightly washed with rufous and streaked 

 with darker brown ; frontal feathers and those round the eye whitish; 

 facial ruif rather distinct brown, streaked with pure white ; under 

 surface of body dull brown on the breast, shading into orange-rufous 

 on the abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the feathers distinctly 

 margined with white, causing a streaked appearance ; under wing- 

 coverts white, with aiTOW-shaped central spots of clear orange-rufous ; 

 feet light yellow ; iris yellow. Total length 20-5 inches, culmen 1-35, 

 wing 15-], tail 9-5, tarsus 3-2. 



AdiiU female. Tery similar to the male, but more distinctly 

 streaked on the abdomen and thighs, which are not so bright rufous 

 and have veiy broad white margins ; tail banded with brown and 

 dull rufous, with no ashy-grey shade. Total length 21-5 inches, 

 wing 15-6, tail 9-5, tarsus 3*2. 



Hab. South Africa, below 10° S. lat. 



a. Pull St. Blauw Berg, S. Africa. M. J. Verreaux | CI 



b. 2 iuv. sk. Latakoo. M. J. Yen-eaux [C.J. 



c. d. Juv. sk. South Afi-ica. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 e, f. c? 2 ad. St. South Afi-ica. S. African Museum. 

 <7. d ad. St. South Afiica. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. South Africa. John Rocke, Esq. [P]. 



14, Circus gouldi. 



Cu-cus assinulis, Gould, B. Atistr. i. pi. 2G (1848) ; StricM. Orn. Syn. 

 p. 1.5.5 (1855) ; Cass. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 101 (1858) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 58 (1865) ; Finsch u. Hartl. Faun. C'cmtr. 

 Polijn. Orn. p. 7 (1867) ; Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 36 (1869) ; Hutton, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 392 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Eeme Accipitr. p. 51 (1873). 



Circus approximans. Peak, U. S. Expl. E.vp. p. 64 (1848). 



Circus gouldi, Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 34 (1850) ; ul. Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 491 ; 

 Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 215; Bidlcr, B. N. Zeal, part 1 (1872). 



Circus wolfi, Gurney, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 823, pi. xliv. 



Young. Above uniform sooty brown ; the nape and hind neck 

 streaked with rich fulvous ; the ujiper tail-coverts tawny rufous, 

 shaded mesially with brown ; wings brown, like back ; the primaries 

 blacker ; the secondaries narrowly margined with fulvous towards 

 the tips ; the inner web fulvous, washed with rufous near the base ; 

 under the eye a patch of fulvous feathers ; imder surface of body 

 chocolate-bro\vn, gradually becoming deep chestnut on abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts ; taO. nearly uniform brown, tipped 

 with pale tawny buff ; the outer feathers more or less tawny rufous 

 near the base, mottled with brown, remains of obsolete dark brown 

 bars being apparent on the centre feathers ui certain lights. 



Adult. Above earthy brown ; the nape and hind neck slightly 

 streaked with bufi"; most of the dorsal feathers with central markings 

 of darker brown ; quUls brown, shaded externally with ashy grey ; 

 the secondaries narrowly tipped with fulvous, all with more or less 



