380 A Description of the Birds 
[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
No. IV., Juty to SePreMBER 1830,] 
A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 
Africa. By Anprew Smirx, M.D. Member of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh; 
Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 
&e. 
[Continued from p. 241.] 
BurEeo LAGopus.* 
Falco Lagopus, Gmel. Syst. 1, p. 260, sp. 58.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. vol. 1, p. 19.—Merey Tasschenb. Deut. vol. 1, p. 87.— 
Falco Plumipes, Daud. Orn.—Falco Sclavonicus, Lath. Ind. 
vol. 1, p. 26, sp. 54.—Buse Gantée, Le Vaill. Ois. d’ Afrique, 
vol. 1, pl. 18. 
B. fuscus ex albido vario rectricibus fuscis basi dimidia 
apice que albis; cera pedibusque luteis. 
Male.—Head, upper part of neck, throat, breast, and thighs, 
whitish yellow, variegated with large oblong brown streaks ; 
interscapulars, wing coverts, and back, brownish black, each 
feather with a yellowish red edging; a large transverse band 
or blotch of deep brown on the posterior part of belly ; ramp 
and under tail coverts whitish yellow. Tail white towards 
base, elsewhere uniform brown, with all the feathers termi- 
nated by dirty white ; legs feathered as far as the toes; the 
latter and eyes brown; cere yellow; bill black. The male 
measures nineteen inches, and the female two feet three 
inches. 
The female has less white upon the head, the neck, and the 
* In consequence of an error in the printing department, the name and 
synonymes of this bird were made to finish that portion of the communica- 
tion, descriptive of the Birds inhabiting the South of Africa, which appeared 
in our last number, even without having undergone the common typogra- 
phical corrections. 
