*104. 
104a. 
104b. 
105. 
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Accipiter minullus minullus (Daud.), Traité, 
ii., p. 88 (1800). [ex. Levaillant—Aives du 
Gamtoos. | 
Little Sparrow- Hawk. 
Wing 3 147, 2168 mm. ; above slaty black ; 
upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; tail 
with 2 faint paler bands, and 2 large spots 
of white on inner webs ; below white (sides 
bright chestnut), narrowly barred with 
rufous. 
Accipiter minu!us intermedius Erlang., J. 
f. Orn., p. 173 (1904). [Abela, 5. Abys- 
sinia. | 
Abyssinian Sparrow-Hawk. 
Sides paler; bars darker and broader. 
Accipiter minullus erythropus (Hartl.), 
J.1.0., 1855, p. 354. [Gold Coast, type in 
Leyden Mus. | 
Red-legged Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing ¢ 152 mm. ; upper tail-coverts con- 
spicuously white ; barrings below blackish 
brown with very little rufous. 
Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 367, pl. vi. [Okavango River, type in 
Norwich Mus. ] 
Gurney’s Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 3 232, 9 264 mm. ; above dark ashy 
grey ; tail with 4 darker bars, alternated 
with paler bands, in centre of each of which 
is a white spot ; below white with narrow 
grey bands. 
S. Africa, to 
Brit. E. Africa 
on E. and 
Angola on W.# 
N.E. Africa, 
from Egyptian 
Soudan and 
Abyssinia 
to Uganda. 
W. Africa, 
Gold Coast to 
Cameroons. 
Ovampo Land, 
S.W. Africa, to 
Zambesi, 
Nyasaland, 
S. Abyssinia, 
Gambaga 
(Gold Coast). 
1 A. minullus tropicalis Reich. (J. f. O. p. 139, 1908) from E. Africa does not 
after careful comparison appear to be separable. 
