FALC0NID.5 



HELOTARSUS 



315 



[Natal] ; Layard, B. S. Afr.-p. 18 (1867) ; Gttrnerj, Ibis, 1868, p. 140; 

 Heuglin, Orn. Nordost Aft: p. 80, pL 2 (1869) ; Gurney in Andersson s 

 B. Damaraland, p. 10 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 300 (1874) ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 360 [Matabeleland] ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. 8. Afr. pp. 48, 798 (1875-84) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1878, p. 353 ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 238 [Tati river] ; Holub cj- Pelzeln, Dm. Siid-Afr. 

 p. 27 (1882) ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 324 [Kroonstad] ; Bryden, Gun 

 and Camera, p. 65 (1893) ; Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, p. 393 ; 

 Millais, Breath from the Veldt, pp. 117, 317, sketches (1895) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 148 (1896) ; Soiverby, Ibis, 1898, p. 574 [Mashonaland] ; 

 Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 148 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 258 

 [Mashonaland] ; Alexander, ibid. p. 436 [Zambesi valley] ; Wood- 

 ward Bros. ibid. p. 519 [Zululand] ; Beichenoto, Vog. Afr. i, p. 598 

 (1901). 

 ' Berghaan " of the Colonists, a name often applied to other large bu-ds 

 of prey. 



Fig. 104. — Helotarsus ecaudatus. 



Descriptio^i. Adult female. — Head, which is strongly crested, 

 cheeks, sides of the neck and the whole of the underparts rich 

 glossy black ; centre of the back, inner scapulars, upper and under 

 tail-coverts, and tail rich maroon-chestnut; shoulders and wing- 

 coverts except the greater series silvery-brown ; greater wing-coverts, 

 primary and secondary wing-quills and scapulars blue-black ; the 

 secondaries are sometimes silvery and tipped with black perhaps in 

 not quite adult birds, perhaps in the female as suggested by Gurney, 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



