46. A8TURixrLA. 275 



Falco occipitalis, Baml. Traite, ii. p. 40 (1800). 



Falco senegalensis, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 41 (1800). 



Morphnus occipitalis, Vig. Zool. Jotct-n. i. pp. 323, 337 (1825) ; Less. 



Traite, p. 54, pi. 13. fig. 1 (1831). 

 Harpyia occipitalis, Sicaivs. C/assif. B. ii. p. 208 (1837). 

 Spizaetus occipitalis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 14 ( 1845) ; Bp. Consp. p. 28 



(1850) ; Horsf. S,- 3Ioore, Cat. B. Mtts. E. I. Co. i. p. 35 (1854) ; 



Strickl. Oni. Si/n. p. 72 (1855) ; Harfl Orn. W.-Afr. p. 5 (1857) ; 



id. Orn. Madaq. p. 10 (1861) ; 8chl. Mas. P.-B.' Astures, p. 25 



(1862) ; ,SW. Ibis, 1804, p. 303 ; Kirl; t. c. p. 315 ; Lai/ard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 13 (1867) ; Schl. S,- Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. p." 35 (1868) ; 



Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 13 (1869); Hettr/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 57 



(1869) ; Lai/ard, Ibis, 1869, p. 71 ; Gurney, t. c. p. 147 ; Finsch %■ 



Hartl. Fog.' Ostafr. p. 50 (1870). 

 Lophoaetus occipitalis, Kaitp, Isis, 1847, p. 165. 



Adult female. Always chocolate-brown, with some of the fea- 

 thers on the back and wing-coverts inclining to paler brown ; head 

 rather darker, blackish, with a black occipital crest 4-2 inches 

 long ; bases of the crest-feathers and a few spots on the outer upper 

 tail-coverts white ; tail dark brown, the immediate base white, the 

 basal band white, the others more or less whity brown ; quills dark 

 brown, white at base, banded with paler brown above, whitish 

 below, the secondaries more indistinctly, the inner ones quite uniform 

 with the rest of the back ; under wing-coverts for the most part 

 white, the inner ones and the tips of the greater ones brown ; axil- 

 Inrics brown ; legs white, more or less washed with brownish ; fore- 

 head whitish ; bill bluish, black at tip ; cere pale yellow ; feet light 

 yellow, claws black. Total length 21'5 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 

 1.5-9, tail 8-5, tarsus 3" 7. 



Adult male. Kather smaller than the female. Total length 

 21 inches, wing 15-1, tail 8"5, tarsus 4. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. 2 ad. sk. South Africa. John Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



b. j" ad. sk. Lower Shire valley. Dr. Kirk [C.]. 



c. Ad. St. Port Natal. Purchased. 



d. Ad. St. Snewberg, S. Africa. Prnx-hasod. 



e. (S ad. sk. Ogowe River, Gaboon M. A. Bouvier [E.]. 



(^Marche et de Com- 

 jiiegne). 

 f, g, h. Skeletons. Purchased. 



46. ASTUEINULA. 



lype. 

 Kaupifalco, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 555. A. niouograuiinica. 

 ^sturinula, Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 59 



(1870) A. monogramiuica. 



lianrje. The whole of Africa, except the southern portion. 



1 . Astiirinula mouogrammica. 



Falco monogramniicus, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 314 (1824). 

 Astiir monogrammicus. Less. Man. i. p. 93 (1828) ; Swains. B. IV. 



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