288 African Zoology. 
lars and back dark brown; throat, breast, and belly, tawny 
white, more or less variegated with longitudinal brown streaks. 
Inhabits South Africa,—near Heer-logement. 
Morphnus dubius, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, 
vol. i. p. 117. 
Genus Crrovus. Bechst. 
Bill moderately compressed ; spaces between eyes and nostrils 
covered with rigid hair; nostrils oblong rounded ; a colleret of 
rigid feathers in a half-circle between the chin and the ears, 
formed by the auricular feathers. Tarsi long, slender, scu- 
tellated before, reticulated behind; claws moderate. Tail 
rounded and broad. 
Circus gallinarius, Shaw. Male,—Head, neck, back, wings, 
and rump, bluish-grey; wing feathers white at their bases, 
elsewhere black; insides of shoulders, rump, belly, flanks, 
thighs, and tail beneath, white; tail above ashy grey, tips of 
feathers white ; eyes yellow. Length one foot seven inches. 
Female.—Upper parts dull brown; the feathers of head, 
neck, and anterior part of back, bordered with rufous; beneath 
yellow-rufous, variegated with large longitudinal brown spots; 
outer vanes of wing feathers rayed dark brown and black, in- 
ner ones black and white; rump white; the two middle tail- 
feathers rayed black and deep ash, the lateral ones rufous- 
yellow and black. 
Young,—Similar to the female, and the male of the first and 
second year. 
Inhabits Egypt, Europe, and America, 
L’Oiseau Saint-Martin, Buff. Falco Gallinarius, Lin. 
Falco Pygargus, Gmel. 
Circus melanoleucus. Head, neck, back, rump, shoulders: 
and upper parts of breast, deep black ; under parts pure white- 
Primary quill feathers black, secondaries and wing coverts 
cinerious, variegated with black spots or imperfect bands. Tail 
above, hoary grey, irregularly spotted with brown; beneath 
white. Bill black, with a yellowish spot on each mandible to- 
wards base; cere, tarsi, and toes, yellow; claws black. 
Length twenty-two inches. 
Female.—Grey-white dashed with black. 
Young.—Brown-black above ; white beneath, dashed with 
longitudinal brown-black streaks. 
Inhabits South Africa and India 
Faleo melanoleucus, Gmel. Lath, Faucon a collier des 
Indes, Sonnerat, Itin, t. ii. p. 182. Le Tchong, Le Vaill. ° 
Afrig. pl. 32. 
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