Birds. 281 
white, here and there dotted or finely streaked with black ; 
belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, finely banded black and 
white. Tail slightly rounded, the two centre feathers blackish 
grey, the rest blackish, or blackish grey and white in different 
proportions, the latter particularly abundant in the two outer- 
most ones of each side, all, with the exception of the two mid- 
dle ones, broadly tipt with white. Upper and lower mandibles 
at base orange-coloured, elsewhere black. Cere, tarsi, and 
toes, red; claws black. Length twenty inches. 
Young.—Bill blackish, with a little of the base of each man- 
dible yellow; cere greenish yellow; eyes greyish yellow, in- 
clined to pure yellow; head, neck, and back, brown, the 
feathers of the two former white towards quills ; tail coverts 
white, with a triangular brown spot near the tip of each ; 
shoulders brown, with the feathers edged and tipt with reddish 
white; belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, marked with 
alternate broad irregular brown and white bands. Primary 
wing coverts brown, tipt with white; primary wing feathers 
reddish brown, banded with black, the outer vanes tinted with 
grey ; secondaries bluish grey, banded with black, and tipt with 
white ; tail with reddish grey and blackish brown transverse 
bands, the former four in number; legs and toes somewhat 
flesh-coloured ; claws black. 
Inhabits Africa,—common in South Africa. 
Falco Musicus, Daud. Orn. p. 116. Le Faucon chanteur, 
Le Vaill. pl. 27. Blaauwe Valk of the Cape Colonists. 
Accipiter rufiventris, Lath. Head, upper part of neck, back, 
and upper tail coverts, blue-grey or ashy brown ; sides of neck, 
throat, breast, anterior parts of belly and thighs, light rufous ; 
hinder part of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, pure white. 
Wing feathers dirty brown, the inner vanes banded with black 
and blotched towards quills with white. Tail above brown- 
black with four brownish grey transverse bands, beneath white 
with dark brown bands; tips of all the feathers white. Biull 
black, the festoon and base of lower mandible yellow ; legs, 
toes, and cere, yellow; claws black. Length of male ten inches, 
of female fourteen inches. 
Young.—Above brown, the feathers of head, neck, and 
shoulders, margined with rufous ; beneath light rufous or ru- 
fous-white, variegated with slender longitudinal streaks. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Accipiter minullus, Lath. Head, neck, and back, a dark 
slate colour ; upper tail coverts white, spotted or banded with 
black. Chin and throat white, finely mottled or indistinctly 
rayed with black ; sides of breast and belly rufous, middle of 
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