MELIERAX GABAR. 19 
secondaries entirely grey, like the back, none of the quills barred ; 
upper tail-coverts white, crossed with numerous bars of slaty grey ; 
tail blackish, white at the immediate base, and at the tips, the three 
outermost feathers plainly crossed with four white bands, the next 
more indistinctly, and the middle ones not at all barred; under 
surface of tail whitish, the bands very distinct ; lores rufescent ; throat 
and chest ashy grey; rest of the body white, minutely barred with 
ashy grey, scarcely less thickly on the under tail-coverts, but much 
fewer on the under wing-coverts, which are therefore purer white ; 
cere vermilion ; bill horn-black, vermilion at base; feet vermilion ; 
iris pale umber brown. Total length, 20-5 inches, culmen, 1-4; wing, 
12°5; tail, 9; tarsus, 3°5. (Sharpe, Cat. B. p. 89.) 
Adult female.—A little larger than the male. Total length, 21 
inches, wing 13°4. 
The immature bird resembles the young of M. canorus. 
Fig. Rippell, Neue Wirb. taf. 15. 
16. MeLiERAxX GABAR. i Red-faced Goshawk. 
Examples of the present bird from South Africa are generally 
larger and more coarsely barred than those from the northern parts 
of the same continent, but after comparison of a large series the 
editor has been unable to separate them specifically. 
It is of general distribution in the colony, though not found near 
Cape Town, frequenting the wooded banks of rivers and kloofs in 
mountains, preying on small birds and reptiles. Victorin procured it 
in the Karroo, and we have a note from Dr. Exton, that it is found 
near Kanye in the Bechuana country. Mr. Ayres has shot this 
bird in the Transvaal, where, he says, it frequents the thick 
bush, and on the Zambesi, the late Dr. Dickerson procured speci- 
mens at Chibisa, while the British Museum also contains several 
examples shot by Dr. Kirk at Tete during the Livingstone expedition. 
Mr. Andersson observes that it is “common in Damara and Great 
Namaqua Land, as well as in the Lake-region. Partially migratory 
in Damara Land.” Sefor Anchieta has also met with the species at 
Humbe on the banks of the Cunene River. 
Mr. Atmore states that they whistle very much, and better than 
M. musieus. The nest is a cup made of sticks and lined with wool in 
the middle of a mimosa tree. Hggs dull white, axis 1’’ 8’’’ Diam. 
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