18 



General colour sooty black, tinged with chest- 

 nut on rump. (Female more bro^vnish.) 

 56a. Parabuteo imicinctus harrisi (Audub.), B. Am., 

 pi. cccxcii., 1831 ; Orn. Biog., v., p. 30. 

 Harris's Buzzard-Hawk. 



Central and 

 N. America 

 from Panama 

 to Southern 



U.S. 



Gen. XXIII. MELIERAX Gray (1840). 



Tarsus scaled in front, reticulated on outer asjDect, 

 not feathered so far down as length of middle 

 toe. 



57. 



Size large (length 21 in. ; wing 14.8) ; 

 general plumage bluish ash ; quills black ; 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, upper tail-coverts 

 and base of tail whitish freckled with 

 grey ; outer tail-feathers white, barred with 

 black ; belly white, narrowly barred with 

 blackish. 



Melierax canorus canorus (Rislach), in Thunb., 

 Diss. Ac, iii., p. 264 (1799). 

 Chanting Goshawk. 



S. Africa 



below 



15°S.lat. 



57a. 



Size similar ; tail- coverts white, with numerous 

 bars of slaty grey ; tail blackish, with 4 white 

 bands, the middle feathers unbarred ; below 

 white, minutely barred with ashy grey. 

 Melierax cmiorus metabates, Heugl.. Il)is, 1861, 

 p. 72. 



Many-banded Hawk. 

 [= M. polyzorms of authors.] 



N.E. Africa, 

 Sudan to 

 Mogador, 

 W. Arabia. 



Much lighter form. 



57b. Melierax canorus neumanni, Hart., Vog. Pal. Nubia to 

 Fauna, ii., p. 1165 (1914). Sudan & 



Neumann's Goshawk. Hausaland. 



57c. 



Rather smaller ; above darker slate ; throat, 



chest and wings, light grey ; below white, with 



narrow blackish bars ; tail black, tip and upper 



tail-coverts white. 



Melierax canorus polio'pteriis Cab., inDecken's 



Reise, iii., Vog., p. 40 (1869). 



E. African Goshawk. 



E. Africa, 

 Somaliland to 

 Kilimanjaro. 



