256 Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall un 



resembles in habits. The stomach of a specimeu io my collec- 

 tion contained four large green locusts. Both these Harriers 

 are migratory, occurring only during our wet season 



160. Melierax polyzonus. (Many-banded Goshawk.) 

 Mr. Swynnerton obtained a single example of this Hawk in 



January last. The stomach contained a lizard and some 

 beetles. 



161. AsTUR POLYZONoiDEs. (Little Barred Goshawk.) 

 This little Hawk is one of our commonest birds of prey, and 



also is one of the few which reside here all the year round. 

 It is by no means shy, sitting fairly close within the foliage 

 of the trees ; when disturbed it descends with a low swooping 

 flight, dodging in the bush, but for no great distance, and 

 rising abruptly to its perch. The nest is a neat structure of 

 sticks placed in the fork of a tree, about 15 or 20 feet from 

 the ground ; the eggs, which are three or four in number, 

 are dull white, with highly variable blotches of vandyke-brown 

 and underlying markings of lilac-grey, and measure 38 x 

 30 mm. Stomachs contained lizards, snakes, locusts, and 

 winged termites. The young bird differs in having the under- 

 parts marked with longitudinal blotches of light reddish 

 brown. 



162. AcciPiTER ovAMPENSis. (Ovampo Sparrow-Hawk.) 

 I have obtained only a single specimen in Mashona- 



land, which is probably referable to this species*. It was 

 one of a pair which frequented a kloof close to Mr. Darling^s 

 camp at Mazoe in December 1898. It was a young female 

 with undeveloped ovaries, and appeared to differ from what 

 I could remember of Natal examples in the colour of the 

 breast, which was rufous, with very narrow black shaft-stripes, 

 and also in its buff under tail-coverts. The stomach contained 

 remains of a small bird, apparently a Weaver. 



163. BuTEo JAKAL. (Jackal Buzzard.) 



This is the only Buzzard with which I am acquainted here, 



* [This is prpbably the specimen recently sent to the British Museum 

 by Mr. Marshall. — Edd.] 



