284 FALCONID^. 



o. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



b. 5 ad. St. Cape of Good Hope, Baron Ijaug-ier de Chartrouse. 



c. Juv. sk. Cape of Good Hope. S. -African Museum. 

 (I. (^ ad. St. Suewberg, S. Africa. Purchased. 



e, f. Juv. St. Port Natal. Purchased. 



n. Skeleton. Purchased. 



3. Circaetus beaudouinii. 



Circaetus fasciatus, Heur/l. Si/st. Uehers. p. 7 (1856, descr. nulla) ; id. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 86 (1869). 

 Cii'caetus beaudouinii, Verr. et Des Murs, Ibis, 1862, p. 212 ; Schl. 



Mus. P.-B. Buteones, p. 25 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 14 



(1869). 

 Circaetus thoracicus (lapsti), Souza, Cat. Accipitr. Lisb. Mus. p. 37 



(1869) ; Socage, Jorn. Lisb. 1871, p. .3. 

 Circaetus gallicus (pt.), Schl, Revue Accipitr. p. 112 (1873). 



Young. Above brown, with paler margins to the feathers ; the 

 lesser and median wing-coverts rather lighter than the back ; qnills 

 blackish, the secondaries glossy brown, the innermost much paler 

 brown, like the wing-coverts ; the lower surface of the wing white 

 for the greater part of the inner web ; the secondaries whitish ashy 

 underneath, with indistinct brownish bands ; tail nearly uniform 

 brown, darker on the outer web ; the tips of the feathers whity 

 brown, the lower surface whitish, with indications of three or four 

 dusky brown cross bands ; head pale brown, with narrow blackish 

 shaft-lines, the feathers more or less whitish near the base, produ- 

 cing a streaked appearance ; lores, feathers round the eye, and sides 

 of face white, with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; over the eye a nar- 

 row black Une, forming an eyebrow ; cheeks and entire throat fulvous 

 brown, narrowly streaked with black along the shafts of the feathers ; 

 rest of under surface fulvous brown, the bases of the feathers on 

 the abdomen white, causing a slightly barred appearance ; under 

 taQ-coverts white, with broad fulvous-brown bars ; under wing- 

 coverts nearly uniform fulvous brovra, showing the white bases to 

 the feathers very slightly ; the lower series white, with an indistinct 

 subterminal spot of pale brown. 



Adult female. Above ashy brown with somewhat of a purplish 

 gloss ; the wing-coverts lighter than the back, some of the greater 

 coverts narrowly margined with whitish, some of the outer upper 

 tail-coverts broadly tipped and barred on the outer web with white ; 

 quiUs blackish, externally shaded with ashy grey ; the secondaries 

 tipped with whitish and barred with ashy grey and dark brown ; 

 the lower surface of the wing white, shading into ashy brown to- 

 wards the tips, the secondaries with distinct bars of darker brown ; 

 tail ashy brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with four distinct 

 bands of blackish brown : sides of head ashy brown ; the lores and 

 feathers round the eye whitish, with a narrow superciliary Une of 

 black feathers ; throat pale ashy brown, with white bases to the 

 feathers, causing a slightly varied appearance ; chest uniform ashy 



