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tolerably common, as Dr. Dickerson procured four specimens, at 
Quilimane, Magomero, and Chibisa: Dr. Kirk also states that it is 
found in the open forests of the Shiré Valley. On the western side 
it has been shot once in Damara Land by Andersson, who obtained 
a single example at Elephant Vley on the 26th of October, 1859. 
Senor Anchieta has likewise killed it at Capangombe in the interior 
of Mossamedes. 
The following description is from the British Museum Catalogue : 
Adult.—Above dark slaty grey, the head and sides of the face 
lighter, the wing-coverts also a little paler grey, the edge of the wing 
white, with which colour the outermost of the upper primary coverts 
is edged; quills blackish, all tipped, and the outermost edged, with 
white, the secondaries ashy grey like the back and more broadly 
tipped ; all the quills white at the base of the inner web, extending 
in notches for some distance up the feather; lower back and rump 
blackish ; the upper tail-coverts and immediate base of tail white, 
forming a broad band; .tail blackish, broadly tipped with white, and 
having one conspicuous white band across the centre; lores and 
feathers in front of the eye whitish; throat white, with a very broad 
streak of black down the centre; fore neck, sides of neck, and chest 
ashy grey; rest of under surface, including the flanks and axillaries, 
thickly barred with white and ashy brown; under wing- and tail- 
coverts white; cere, orbits, and base of lower mandible bright 
cinnabar-red; bill dark leaden horn-colour; feet vermilion ; iris 
umber-brown. Total length, 12 inches ; culmen, 1'1; wing, 8°9 ; tail, 
5:8; tarsus, 1°95. 
Adult female.—A little larger than the male, Total length, 13°5 
inches; culmen, 1°2; wing, 9°5; tarsus, 2°1. 
Fig. Swains, B, W. Afr. i., pl. 4. 
28. CIRCAETUS CINEREUS. Black-breasted Harrier-Eagle. 
Circaetus thoracicus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 15 (1867). 
This fine Eagle is generally distributed in the Colony, although 
rather rare. Mr. H. Gird, M,L,A., obtained a noble pair on his farm, 
Oliphant’s Fontei, which are now mounted in the Museum at Cape 
Town. Victorin procured it in the Karroo, and Mr. Henry Jackson 
says that in this locality they are always found near water and not 
in the mountains. We ourselves found it breeding at the Berg 
river and we also saw it about Grahams-town and the Kowie mouth. 
