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dissected I am inclined to think that the chief food of 

 this species consists of rats, mice, small reptiles, and 

 many kinds of insects ; it also occasionally devours 

 young birds. 



The irides in adult specimens are of a deep reddish 

 brown ; the cere and base of the bill bright brick-red, the 

 rest of the bill dark horn-colour ; the legs and feet 

 vermilion. 



Measurements of a male and a female : — 



34. Melierax polyzonus, EUpp. lliippell's mauy-zoned Hawk. 



Nisns polyzonus, Riippell's Fauna Abyssin. pi. 15. 

 Melierax polyzonus, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 2. 

 „ „ Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 354. 



[An adult male of this species was obtained by Mr. Andersson 

 at Elephant's Vley on November lOtlij 1859, and is preserved 

 in the Norwich Museum. I know no other instance of this 

 species occurring so far south ; and it is remarkable that it should 

 have been obtained at the same spot, and within fifteen days of 

 the same date, as the specimen of Kaupifalco monogrammicus 

 previously refeiTed to. 



Mr. Andersson, in his notes on some of the Birds of Damara 

 Land, published in the Zoological Society's ' Proceedings ' for 

 1864, p. 4, erroneously gave the name of this species to Accipiter 

 polyzonoides, Smith, the bird to Avhich he then applied the latter 

 name being in reality A. tachiro (Daiul.). — Ed.] 



