282 African Zoology. 
breast and anterior part of belly, pure white, all rayed trans- 
versely with narrow brown-black bands ; hinder parts of belly 
and under tail coverts pure white. Primary wing feathers 
brownish, the inner vans with transverse dusky black bands ; 
secondaries brownish, inner vanes edged with white and crossed 
by black bands. ‘Tail slightly rounded, the outer vanes of 
feathers brown-black,spotted orirregularly banded with reddish 
brown ; inner vanes black, and partially crossed in three differ- 
ent positions by white; tips of all the feathers white. Bull 
black ; cere, legs, and toes, yellow; claws black. Length 
of male ten inches, of female twelve inches. 
Young.—Above brown, feathers margined with rufous ; be- 
neath rufous, blotched or banded transversely with black-brown ; 
throat but slighly spotted. 
Inhabits Africa,—forests of South Africa. 
Le Minule, Le Vaill. pl. 34. 
Accipiter melanoleucus, Smith. Above black with a faint tint 
of brown; below deep black. Primary quill feathers black, the 
inner vanes towards quills spotted or irregularly banded with 
white ; secondaries dusky brown clouded with black, and the 
inner vanes spotted with white; scapulars brown with some 
white blotches on both vanes. Tail slightly rounded, black, 
with four or tive tawny brown bands, the outer feathers more 
or less blotched with white towards quills, the centre ones 
without variegations. Bill black, with the festoon and a spot 
on the lower mandible yellow ; legs and toes greenish yellow; 
claws black. Length about twenty inches. 
Middle age-—Above black, beneath white blotched more or 
less with black. 
Young.—Head rufous, longitudinally streaked with brown; 
back brown, the feathers margined with rufous ; under parts 
rufous, variegated with longitudinal brownstripes. Tail slight- 
ly rounded, each feather with four or five transverse black 
bands, and the spaces between them brown, finelv mottled with 
white ; some of the black bands are somewhat arrow-shaped, 
with their distal edges margined tawny white. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Accipiter melanoleucus, Smith, South African Quarterly 
Journal, vol. i. p. 229. 
Obs. Naturalists who see reason for separating the larger and more 
robust species from the smaller and more slender ones, would rank this 
as an Astur. 
Accipiter Madagascariensis, Verreaux. Above dull brown 
with an irregular white spot on the nape; below white, finely 
barred with brown-black ; vent and under tail coverts pure 
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