278 African Zooloyy. 



feathers wliite. Bill dark horn-coloured ; cere and base of 

 lower mandible yellow ; tarsi and toes yellow-brown ; claws 

 black. Length two feet fonr incites. 



Inhabits Sonth Africa and Madagascar. 



Falco gymnogeuys, Temm, 'pL SOJ. Gymnogeuys Madagas- 

 cariensis, Lesson. 



Ohs. Two specimens from Madagascar which I have examined, differed 

 only from the South African one iu my possession, by being fn)aller and 

 of a ligliter colour. They were probably male birds, and mine is a female. 



Fam. accipitrina. 



Bill convex, curved from the base, hooked, upper mandible 

 with a more or less distinct festoon on its edge, lower mandible 

 shorter and obtuse ; nostrils almost oval : tarsi nearly or com- 

 pletely naked, slender ; claws large, very sharp ; wings shorter 

 than the tail, fourth quill feather the longest. 



Genus Accipiter. Rtty- 



Tarsi generally slender, scutellated ; body slender; claw of 

 inner toe very strong ; nostrils rounded, transverse ; loings ex- 

 tend a little beyond the base of tail, the latter rounded, gra- 

 duated or slightly forked. 



' Accipiter monogrammicits. Lesson. Ashy grey; throat M'hile 

 with a lon;j;itudinal black line ; belly finely striated with brown ; 

 tarsi and cere reddish. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



Falco monogrammicus, Temm. pi. col. 314. 



' Accij i'er folyzonvs. Lesson. Bill and cere brown, the base 

 of the lower mandible, and the festoon of njiper, yellowish ; a 

 narrow space round eyes naked ; plumage above an uniform 

 ashy brown ; throat whitish, finely rayed transversely with 

 brown ; anterior part of neck, breast, and belly, dull white, 

 regularly rayed with transverse brown or pale rufous bars ; vent 

 and under tail coverts white, with some fine transverse brown 

 lines ; wing feathers light brown, banded with dark brown ; 

 inner vanes marked with white towards quills. Tail long, even 

 or slightly forked, beneath ash-white with transverse brown 

 bands, above brown Avith darker transverse bands, and tlia* 

 inner \anes of central feathers with two or three narrow white 

 bars ; the tips of all the feathers white. Tarsi long, and with 

 the toes vellow ; claws black. Length sixteen inches and a 

 half. 



Inhabits South Africa. 

 Falco poljjzonos. Tcnim. 



