21. MELIEKAX. 



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brown; wing-coverts paler brown, with fulvous edgings to the 

 feathers ; quills brown the primaries with a slight grej-ish shade 

 externally the secondaries paler and tipped with fulvous ; the 

 under surface of quills M-hite for the greater part of their length, 

 wi h zigzag bars of blackish, more pronounced below than above; 

 tail brown above, banded with blackish brown ; the feathers whitish 

 on the inner web, increasing in extent towards the outer feathers, 

 where it forms broad white bands ; the under surface of the tail 

 creamy white with broad bands of brown; throat white, streaked 

 wi h P'^le rufous: chest clouded Avith pale rufous, slightly mottled 

 with whitish, the shafts of the feathers indicated by a dark brown 

 hne; rest of under surface whitish, crossed with numerous bars of 

 pale rufous, narrower on the under wing- and taU-coverts 



Adult male Ahoy^ light bluish slate-colour, the sides ojf the face 

 and region of t^e eye a httle darker ; lesser ^-ing-coverts coloured 

 like the back, the greater ones rather lighter and slightly freckled 

 externally mth white ; primaries blackish, externdly shaded with 

 ashy grey; he secondaries pale greyish, freckled with white; the 

 inner secondaries entirely grey, like the back, none of the quills 

 barred; upper tail-coverts white, crossed with numerous bars of 

 slaty grey ; tail blackish, wliite at the immediate base and at the 

 tips the three outermost feathers plainly crossed with four white 

 bands the next more indistinctly, and the middle ones not at all 

 barred ; under surface of tail whitish, the bands very distinct ; lores 



^YnnM.l ; '":t^ 'i''^ '"'^^ ^''^■' '''^ °f tbe body white, 



minutely barred with ashy grey, scarcely less thickly on the unde^ 

 tail-coverts, but much fewer on the under wing-covirts, which are 

 therefore purer white; cere vermiHon ; bill horn -black, vermilion 

 at base ; feet vermihon : ins pale umber-brown. Total length '^0-5 

 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 12-5, tail 9, tarsus 3-5. 

 _ Adidt female A Httle larger than the male. Total length 21 

 inches, wing 13-4. " 



Vj.£?' ^ ^-^^ '^"^^' ^^tending right across the continent to 

 benegambia ; once in Damara Land. 



h ;M' "h «l Ju''*"' ^'^°'^^^- Governor RendaU [CI. 



i'ldist'-^'- it-sinia. SirW.C.H.ai™ty. 



{: Alt iSnt ^^- ^- ^^'pp^^ tc]. 



; I k f\^. ^ ^'^ f'^^; ^- Galton, Esq. {YX 



•/'Ju;i BogosLand. Herr Esle'r [C?].^ ''• 



I. Juv. sk. Bogos Land. Herr Esler "C 1 



m. S ad sk. Amba, Samhar, W. T. Blanford; Esq. [C.l 



Aug. 18, 1868. ' >i L -J- 



"•^^^'^°""- W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



4- Melierax gabar. 

 vlSn^'''^: ^''■^"'\^t ^^f'- '■ P- 136' pi- 33 (1'99). 



