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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
No. III., Aprit to June 1830. ] 
Var, 
A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 
Africa. By Anprew Smita, M.D. Member of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh; 
Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 
&e. 
[Continued from p. 120.] 
AccIPITER GaBaR. Klein Spervel of the Colonists. 
Falco Gabar, Shaw’s Zoology, vol. 7, p. 202.—Red-legged 
Falcon, Latham’s General History of Birds, vol. 1, p. 212.— 
Epervier Gabar, Daud. 2, p. 87. 
A. capite, dorso, gula pectoreque ceesiis, abdomine et femoribus 
nigro et albo transverse fasciatis ; remiges nigro-brunnee, pogo- 
nus internis nigro-brunneo et sordido albo fasciatis ; cauda ni- 
gro brunnea fasciis tribus subalbidis transversis notata, apices 
plumarum albe. 
Bill dark horn colored ; cere deep red ; eyes light crimson ; 
head, neck, interscapular, back, and shoulders dirty brownish 
or reddish gray; chin, throat, sides of neck, and breast, light 
bluish gray or pale slate color; belly and thighs banded light- 
ish black and clear white. Primary quill feathers nearly an 
uniform dark brown on the outer vanes, whilst the inner ones 
are marked by alternate bands of blackish brown and dirty 
light white ; secondaries nearly similarly colored, and all tipt 
with white. Tail slightly rounded, feathers brownish black, 
crossed by three transverse bands which appear, when viewed 
above, of a pale dusky white or grayish white, and, when 
seen below, of a pure white; the tips of all pure white; legs 
and toes red; claws horn coloured. Length from bill to base 
of tail six inches ; length of latter six inches and a quarter. 
Female.—Length from bill to base of tail seven inches; 
length of latter seven and a half. The color of back, throat, 
and breast less clear than in the male; the black lines of the 
belly rather broader, and the tarsi and toes of a duller yellow. 
Young.—Bill nearly as in mature specimens; cere and 
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