inhabiting the South of Africa. 119 
rayed transversely brown and white; tail slightly rounded 
with a broad band of tawny white, and each feather tipt with 
white ; tarsi and toes yellowish; claws black. Length one 
foot eight or one foot ten inches.” 
Female.— The spots are less distinct, and more of a tawny 
tinge ; the brown is less clear; and the size exceeds that of 
the male.” 
Le Vaillant found this bird on the mountains of Great 
Namaqualand, and I have myself seen several examples of it, 
at least as far as I could judge, about the tops of the moun- 
tains which occur towards the lower part of the Orange 
River. It is very shy, and on that account, though I en- 
deavoured by every means to procure a specimen, I was un- 
successful. ‘It makes its nest in holes of the rocks, which 
it constructs externally of sticks, and internally of leaves or 
moss, and lays two or three eggs. Rock rabbits (Hyrax 
capensis) form its principal food.”—As I have never myself 
had an opportunity of examining this bird, I have placed it in 
the Genus Cymindis, in consequence of the remarks of Mr. 
Vigors, one of the most enlightened Ornithologists of the 
present dayf. 
Stirps. ACCIPITRINA. (HAWKS.) 
Rostrum breve a basi aduncum; ale breves; remex quarta 
plerumque longissima. 
Beak short, hooked from the base ; wings short ; the fourth 
quill generally longest. 
Genus. ACCIPITER. Auwct. 
Rostrum breve; nares sub- || Beakshort; nostrils somewhat 
ovales. Tarsi elongati glabrii | oval. ‘Tarsi elongated, gla- 
acrotarsia scutellata, suturd; | brous; acrotarsia scutellated ; 
via decernenda. / sutures scarcely visible. 
Sparvius pars, Vieillot.—lerax, Leach.—Nisus, Cuvier. 
AccipITeER Musicus. Blaauwwe Valk of the Colonists. 
Falco musicus, Daud. Orn. p. 116.—Shaw, vol. 7, p. 143.— 
Le Faucon Chanteur, Le Vaillant, Ois d’ Afrig., p. 117, pl. 27. 
A. canus, abdomine cruribusque, albis, nigro lineatis ; remi- 
gibus, primarvis nigro fuscis, et secundariis albis nigro notatis ; 
cauda rotundata; plumis duabus medis nigro-griseis reliquis, 
nigro et albo variegatis ; ceroma et tarsis rubris. 
Male.—Upper and lower mandibles at base orange colored, 
elsewhere black ; cere vermillion red; head, neck, and breast 
+ Zoological Journal, vol. 1, p, 324. 
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