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having a conterminous line of dark brown ; under wing-coverts deep 

 ochre, streaked or barred with dark brown. Total length 9-7 inches 

 culmen 0-7, wing 5-8, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult fetnale. fiimilar to the male, hut larger. Total length 11-5 

 inches, wing 6-6, tarsus 1-75. 



Hab. South Africa generally, extending to Mozambique on the 

 east, and to Angola on the west coast. 



a. d juv. sk. Swarte Kop, S. Africa. M. J. Verreaux [C 1 



/>. 2 JUV- St. South Africa. M. J. VeiTeaux fC.i 



c d ad sk. South Africa. S.-Afiican Museum, 



f/. $adst South Africa. S.-African Museum. " 



e,f- 6 2 ad. St. Natal. J. H. Gurney, Esq. rP.l. 



//. d JUV. sk. Eland's Post, S.E. Africa E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(T. Atmore). 



h. d juv. sk. Galungo, Loanda, Aug. 1-5, J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.l. 



1869, 



Subsp. o. Accipiter erythi-opus. 



Nisus erythropus, ITarfl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 354 (ar Temm. MS. in 

 Mus. Lugd.) ; id. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 16 (1857) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 

 Astures, p. 35 (1869). " 



Accipiter erythropus, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 (1869). 

 Adult yncde (type of species). Above blackish brown, with con- 

 cealed white bases to the feathers of the occiput, hind neck, and 

 scapulars ; upper tail-coverts very broadly and conspicuously white ; 

 ear-coverts and cheeks blackish brown, very little lighter than the 

 upper surface ; entire throat, vent, and imder tail-coverts pure white ; 

 remainder of under surface white, barred across with blackish brown^ 

 inclining to rafous on the sides of the chest and thighs; flanks bright 

 rufous; under \ving-coverts (jchraceous buff, with a few blackish 

 markings on the _ lower series; quills brown, barred with darker 

 brown, more distinct underneath, where the inner web is for the 

 most part ochraceous buff; tail brown, crossed with five bars of 

 blackish brown ; the inner web largely notched with white, spots of 

 which are apparent even on the two centre feathers ; cere and legs 

 red ; bill horn-black. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 6, 

 tail 4-5, tarsus 1-8, middle toe 1-05. {Mus. Lugd.) 

 Hab. West Africa, Gold Coast. 



6. Accipiter cirrhocephalus. 



New Holland SpaiTow-Hawk, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 51 (1801). 



Falco nisus, var., Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xi (1801). 



Sparvius cii-rhocephalus, Vteill. JV. I>ict. x. p. 329 (1817). 



Accipiter torquatus, Vig. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 182(1827)- Gould 

 Syn. B. Anstr. pt. 3 (1838) ; id. B. Austr. i. pi. 19 (1848) ; Bp 

 Consp. 1. p. .33 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 45 (1865). 



Nisus australis, Less. Traite, p. 61 (1831). 



Urospiza torquata, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 181. 



Accipiter cin-hocephalus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29(1849). 



Accipiter melanops, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. Ill (1855). 



Nisus cirrhocephalus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 38 (1862). 



Urospiza cirrhocephala, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 176. 



