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FALCONID^. 



Afr. i. pi. 4 (1837) ; Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 121 (1855) ; Hartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 18 (1857) ; Schl. Mtis. P.-B. Astures, p. 24 (1802) ; 



Ilem/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 64 (1869); Schl. Jtevue Accipitr. t^. Q7 



(1873). 

 Nisiis monogrammiciis, Less. Traite, p. 57 (18.31). 

 Accipiter monogrammicus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29 (1849). 

 Melierax luonogTammicus, Jfartl. Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 15 (1852). 

 Micronisus monogi'ammicus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 34 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



i. p. 36 (1869). 

 Kaupifaleo inonogTammicus, Bjy. Rev. et Mag. tie Zool. 1854, p. 535. 



Leg of Astur inula monogremimka. 



Adult. Above dark slaty grey, the head and sides of the face 

 lighter, the wing-coverts also a little paler grey, the edge of the wing 

 white, with which colour the outermost of the upper primary coverts 

 is edged ; quills blackish, all tipped, and the outermost edged, with 

 white, the secondaries ashy grey like the back and more broadly 

 tipped ; all the quills white at the base of the inner web, extending 

 in notches for some distance up the feather ; lower back and rump 

 blackish ; the upper tail-coverts and immediate base of tail white, 

 forming a broad band ; tail blackish, broadly tipped with white, and 

 having one conspicuous white baud across the centre ; lores and 

 feathers in front of the eye whitish ; throat white, with a very broad 

 streak of black down the centre ; fore neck, sides of neck, and chest 

 ashy grey ; rest of under surface, including the flanks and axillaries, 

 thickly barred with white and ashy brown ; under wing- and tail- 

 coverts white ; cere, orbits, and base of lower mandible bright 

 cinnabar-red ; biU dark leaden horn-colour ; feet vermilion ; iris 

 umber-brown. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 8-9, 

 tail 5-8, tarsus 1-95. 



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

 13-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 9-5, tail 6-5, tarsus 2-1. 



Sab. Western and North-eastern Africa, as far south as Zan- 

 zibar in Eastern Africa. 



