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Gen. XXIV. MELIERAX Gray 

 Type Falco musicus Daud. 



;i840). 



Tarsus scaled in front, reticulated on outer aspect, 

 not feathered so far down as length of middle toe. 



*60. Metier ax musicus musicus Daudin, Trait e, 

 ii., p. 116 (1800). [ex. Levaillant— Ca^g 

 Colony.] 

 Chanting Goshawk. 



Size large ; wing <^ 333-360, ? 373 mm. ; 

 general plumage bluish ash ; quills black ; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries whitish frec- 

 kled with grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; 

 central tail feathers black, outer feathers 

 white, barred with black ; belly white, 

 narrowly barred with greyish-black. 



*60a. Melierax musicus metahates, Heugl., Ibis, 

 1861, p. 72. [Upper White Nile.] 

 Many-banded Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing S 298-310, ? 310-325 mm. ; 

 tail-coverts white, with numerous bars of 

 slaty grey ; below white, more minutely 

 barred with ashy grey. 



60b. Melierax musicus neuvianni, Hart., Vog. 

 pal. Fauna, ii., p. 1165 (1914). [Merowe, 

 Dongola, type in Tring Mus.] 

 Neumann's Goshawk. 



Lighter form ; wing <S 300-310, ? 328 mm. ; 

 freckling of wing coverts and secondaries 

 developed into bars ; tail-coverts rather 

 less barred. 



S. Africa below 

 15^ S. lat. 



N. E. Africa. 

 Sudan to 

 Mogador, 

 W. Arabia. 



Nubia to Sudan 

 & Hausaland. 



61. Melierax poliopterus Cab., J.f.O., 1868, E. Africa, 



p. 413. [E. Africa, type in Berlin Mus. J Somaliland to 

 E. African Goshawk. Kilimanjaro. 



