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*104. Accipiter minullus minullus (Daud.), Traite, 

 ii., p. 88 (1800). [ex. Levaillant — Rives dii 

 Gamtoos.] 

 Little Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing cJ 147, 2 168 mm. ; above slaty black ; 

 upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; tail 

 with 2 faint paler bands, and 2 large spots 

 of white on inner webs ; below white (sides 

 bright chestnut), narrowly barred with 

 rufous. 



S. Africa, to 

 Brit. E. Africa 

 on E. and 

 Angola on W.^ 



104a. Accipiter minuilus iniermedius Erlang., J. 

 f. Orn., p. 173 (1904). [Abela, S. Abys- 

 sinia.] 

 Abyssinian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Sides paler ; bars darker and broader. 



N.E. Africa, 

 from Egyptian 

 Soudan and 

 Abyssmia 

 to Uganda. 



104b. Accipiter minullus 

 J.f.O., 1855, p. 354 

 Ley den Mus.] 

 Red-legged Sparrow-Hawk 



erythropus (Hartl. ) , 

 [Gold Coast, type in 



Wing c? 152 mm. ; upper tail-coverts con- 

 spicuously white ; barrings below blackish 

 brown with very little rufous. 



W. Africa, 

 Gold Coast to 

 Cameroons. 



105. Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 367, pi. vi. [Okavango River, type in 

 Norwich Mus.] 

 Gurney's Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing (J 232, ? 264 mm. ; above dark ashy 

 grey ; tail with 4 darker bars, alternated 

 with paler bands, in centre of each of which 

 is a white spot ; below white with narrow 

 grey bands. 



Ovampo Land, 

 S.W. Africa, to 

 Zambesi, 

 Nyasaland, 

 S. Abyssinia, 

 Gambaga 

 (Gold Coast). 



■1 A. minullus tropicalis Reich. (J. f. O. p. 139, 1908) from E. Africa does not 

 after careful comparison appear to be separable. 



