90 FALCONID^. 



Sparv-ius gabar, Vieill. N. Diet. cTHist. Nat. x. p. 323 (1817). 

 Nisus gabar, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 321(1817); Less. Traite, p. GO 



(1831); Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 48 (1862); Heugl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 73 (1869); Finseh u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 86 



(1870); Finseh, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 207 (1870). 



Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 4.36; SheHei/, B. Egypt, p. 186 (1872). 

 Accipiter erytbrorhvnchus, Sivaim. B. W. Afr. i. p. 121, et Classif. 



B. ii. p. 215 (18.3/-). 

 Micronisus gabar, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 5 (1840) ; Kaup, Classif. 



Sciug. u. Vog. p. 119 (1844), et Cmtr. Orn. 18.50, p. 66 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 33 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. 1854, p. 5,38 ; Giill, Zool. An- 



teckn. p. 48 (1858) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 101 ; Scl. Ibis, 1864, 



p. 306 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 35 (1869). 

 Astur gabar, Schl. Rev. Crit. p. v (1844) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 13 (1857). 

 Micronisus niloticus, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 132. 

 Melierax gabar, Haiti. Ahhandl. Geb. Naturic. Hamh. 1852, p. 15 ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 30 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 145, et 



1869, p. 288; Anderss. B. Dam. Ld., ed. Gurney, p. 28 (1872). 

 Accipiter sphenurus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 215 (Juv.). 

 Micronisus gabarinus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 Astur micronisus, Beaum. Natim. 1856, p. 267. 

 Micronisus gabar, var. nilotica, Heugl. Ibis, 1861, p. 74. 

 Melierax niloticus, Gurney, Ibis, 18!;9, p. 289. 

 Nisus niloticus, Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 292 (1870). 



Adult male. Above ashy grey, a little darker on the sides of tha 

 face, inclining to blackish round the eye ; wing-coverts and secon- 

 daries ashy grey like the back, the latter plainly tipped with white ; 

 the primaries brown, externally shaded with ashy grey, the inner 

 ones tipped with white ; all the quills barred with blackish, these 

 bars being more distinct on the under surface of the wing, which is 

 ashy white, shading into pure white at the base ; rump blackish ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, forming a broad bar across the root of the 

 tail ; tail white at the immediate base, and tipped with the same 

 colour, otherwise alternately banded with ashy brown and black, the 

 black bars being four in number ; the outer feathers paler, and the 

 ashy cross bars more or less whitish ; sides of face and neck, as well 

 as the whole throat and chest, ashy grey ; rest of the under surface 

 white, transversely banded with ashy grey, the bars becoming thinner 

 and more linear on the lower flanks and thigh-feathers ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts white, banded with ashy grey 

 like the breast ; cere reddish orange ; bill dusky horn-colour, reddish 

 at base ; feet bright reddish orange ; iris brilliant purple *. Total 

 length 11'5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 7-1, tail 5-9, tarsus 1-9. 



Adult female. A little larger than the male. Total length 

 13-6 inches, wing 8-3, tarsus 2-1. 



» According to Andersson. Von Heuglin gives it as scarlet. 



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