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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
Second Series, APRIL to Junz, 1834,] 
Bary Te 
BERBOS. 
Orper RAPTORES. Viagors. 
Bitz stout, covered with a cere at its base, its tip bent down ; 
less strong, short or of moderate length ; tarsi naked or more or 
less covered with feathers or down ; toes four, three before and 
one behind; claws strong, moveable, arcuated, acute or blunt. 
Fam. GYPOGHRANIDAL.* 
Bill robust, strongly curved at the point; legs very long, 
slender, feathered to, or nearly to the tarsi, the latter scutulated 
or reticulated ; the middle and outer toes united by a small 
membrane at their base ; wings moderate, 
Genus Gypoceranus. lliger. 
Bill robust, shorter than the head, straight at its base, curved 
towards its extremity ; sides compressed; nostrils lateral, oblong, 
oblique, open, and situated in the cere; tongue fleshy and point- 
ed; space round eyes naked ; eyebrows prominent ; tarsi scutu- 
lated ; wings armed with three obtuse spurs ; the first five quills 
of equal length ; tail feathers twelve. 
Gypogeranus Africanus. Oere, and naked space round eyes, 
yellow or orange ; bill blackish towards base, light bluish white 
towards tip ; eyes light brown ; top of head, hinder part of neck, 
back and shoulders blue-grey; sides of neck, throat, and breast 
pale grey; belly white; vent and thighs black, most of the 
feathers narrowly tipt with white. Hindhead with a long crest 
of narrow black feathers that increase in width towards their 
points which are generally white; greater wing coverts and 
quills black. Tail rounded, the two middle feathers nearly 
double the length of the others, hoary grey, each with a broad 
black band towards point, the point itself white; the lateral 
* Accipitres Gallinacées, Lesson, Traite d’ Ornithologie, p. 14. 
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