inhabiting the South of Africa. 229 
roundish dusky blotches; thighs rufous, with transverse 
brown bands or irregular cordiform or roundish spots. Pri- 
mary wing feathers dirty brown, inner vanes banded towards 
tips by black, and towards quills by white and black; secon- 
daries brown, with the inner vanes banded by black, and 
their edges irregularly and broadly marked by white, the outer 
edges andtipsrufous. Tail slightly rounded, with four broad 
blackish transverse bands, and the spaces between these 
tawny or rufous, tips of all the feathers whitish ; legs and toes 
greenish yellow; claws black. The colors of the male and 
female are nearly alike, and there exists the same difference 
in size between them when young as when old. 
Le Vaillant found this bird in the forests of Auteniqualand, 
and I have seen several which were killed in the eastern dis- 
tricts of the colony, as well as in Cafferland. Its nest, ac- 
cording to the author just named, is placed upon trees, and 
constructed externally of small twigs and moss, and internally 
of feathers. From some small portions of shell which he 
found about a nest, he considered the eggs as white, with red 
spots. In the nest itself, as well as on the branches of the 
tree on which it was placed, were found the remains of grass- 
hoppers, &e. 
Obs.—Though “ Le Tachiro,” as figured in the work upon 
African birds is considered by its author as an adult specimen, 
yet I have every reason to be satisfied that it is only the 
young of the species just described. 
ACCIPITER MELANOLEUEUS. 
A. niger; remiges nigre, pogoniis internis albo maculatis 
aut fasciatis; cauda sordido-fusca fasciis transversis nigris 
quatuor. 
Bill black, with the exception of the tooth of the upper 
mandible, and a small portion of the lower directly opposite it, 
which are yellowish ; cere yellowish ; color above black, with 
a faint tint of brown, beneath pure deep black; primary and 
secondary wing coverts black; primary wing feathers black, 
with their inner vanes towards quills spotted, or irregularly 
banded with white ; secondaries dusky brown clouded with 
black, and the imner vanes spotted with white; scapulars 
brown, with some white blotches on both vanes. Tail slightly 
rounded, with four broad black transverse bands, the in- 
termediate spaces dirty tawny brown, and the outer vane 
of the outermost feather of each side with some oblique short 
white stripes towards quill, and internally with white 
blotches; the two next with blotches on the inner vanes, and 
the centre ones without such marks; legs and toes greenish 
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