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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
Juuty to SEPTEMBER, 1834,] 
AFRICAN ZOOLOGY: 
By Dr. SMITH. 
Continued from page 288. 
Circus Acoli. Male.—Bill horn-coloured towards base, 
bluish black towards tip; cere red; eyes orange-red: colour 
of plumage above pale bluish grey ; beneath whitish, with the 
breast, belly, and thighs, finely rayed transversely with black ; 
body slender; legs long; tail nearly even, and of a dirty 
brownish white tint ; shafts reddish brown; legs and toes yel- 
lowish ; claws black. 
Inhabits South Africa,—Zwartland, Le Vaillant. 
L’ Acoli, Le Vaill. A/frig. pl. 31. 
Circus ranivorus. Bill black, with a shade of yellow on 
lower mandible near base; eyes and cere yellow; front and 
crown brown, varied with light rufous ; back of neck and inter- 
scapulars dirty dark brown, the feathers edged with a pure or 
reddish white ; back and rump brown, feathers with tawny tips ; 
upper tail coverts ferruginous and brown, with whitish tips ; 
shoulders mottled dark blackish brown, ferruginous and pure 
white ; cervical collar blackish brown and white; chin, throat, 
and breast, dirty brown, the feathers edged and tipt with dirty 
reddish white. Primary and secondary wing coverts blackish 
brown, with grey transverse bands; primary quill feathers with 
the outer vanes marked by alternate transverse bands of deep 
hoary grey and brownish black ; inner ones with a considerable 
proportion of bluish grey, variegated by transverse partial 
blackish bands, the inner edges of vanes towards quills, clear 
white; towards tips the feathers all nearly uniform brownish 
black ; secondaries brown and deep bluish grey, in alternate 
transverse bands ; inner edges of inner vanes white. Tail with 
five blackish brown, transverse bands, and six bluish grey ones, 
besides bluish grey tips. Legs and toes yellow; claws black. 
Length eighteen inches. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Falco ranivorus, Daud. Shaw. Zool. Le Grenouillard, 
Le Vaill. Afrig. pl. 23. : 
Circus maurus, Temm. Bill black; the base of lower man- 
dible and the portion of the edge of upper adjoining it, yellow; 
cere and eyes yellow; head, neck, back, rump, shoulders, and 
all the under parts, brownish black, verging on pure black ; 
the bases of the feathers of the nape pure white. Outer vanes 
of primary quillfeathers hoary grey; inner vanes towards quills 
white ; elsewhere brown or black; secondaries with the outer 
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